cvs commit: src/usr.bin/awk main.c.diff

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Tue Sep 19 20:18:18 PDT 2006


On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, 12:49-0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > ru          2006-09-15 13:28:10 UTC
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.bin/awk          main.c.diff
> >   Log:
> >   Don't require a space between -[fv] and its argument.
> >   PR:             bin/86514
>
> I really don't think changes like this should be committed unless they
> also get upstream first.  We have BWK awk and by changing it, things
> "tested" on FreeBSD aren't portable other platforms using BWK awk.

This bug was very annoyed and broke scripts that work on RELENG_4.
The solution were to install gawk.  I don't think this way we have
many possibilities to test BWK.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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