Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter'
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 8 12:12:44 PDT 2006
On Thursday 07 September 2006 21:22, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:15:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> > At 4:40 PM -0400 9/7/06, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > >On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:12:56PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > > It seems reasonable to me to add a strftime() (and maybe a few other
> > >> features) to our base-system awk. But look at what happens if we
> > >> install gawk:
> > >>
> > >> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 115732 May 29 21:01 /usr/bin/awk*
> > >> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1201108 Sep 7 15:39 /usr/local/bin/gawk*
> > >
> > >xor# ls -l `which gawk`
> > >-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 225232 Sep 7 16:40 /usr/local/bin/gawk
> > >xor# ls -l `which awk`
> > >-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 123260 May 16 13:58 /usr/bin/awk
> >
> > Huh. I wonder why there's such a difference. All I did was
> >
> > portinstall -N gawk
> >
> > on my FreeBSD 5.x-ish machine (I did it there just because I had a
> > root-session already open on that machine). I've never installed
> > gawk before. Uname:
>
> Most of the bloat appears to be from gettext.
Which is configurable from reading the port Makefile, so Julian can do:
cd /usr/ports/lang/gawk
make WITHOUT_NLS=yes package
and have a small gawk package to install on his boxes. :)
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John Baldwin
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