awk/gawk

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Fri May 16 14:31:11 PDT 2003


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:25:50PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:38:51AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >
> >>A quickie question: Could someone tell me why, on RELENG_4, we have a
> >>gawk(1) manpage but no gawk executable?  Given the manpage links, and
> >>the fact that our system awk is really built from gawk sources, I'd
> >>expect to have a link from /usr/bin/gawk to /usr/bin/awk (or vice
> >>versa).
> >>
> >
> >Perhaps because sheldonh@ was lazy at the time to handle this
> >properly in src/gnu/usr.bin/awk/Makefile,v 1.14.  It should
> >have either be imported as doc/awk.1, as it was before, or
> >the Makefile be tweaked like in other similar situations:
> >
> >/bin/csh/Makefile:
> >csh.1: tcsh.man
> >	ln -sf ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET}
> >
> >No, I don't think that having /usr/bin/gawk is a good idea.
> >
> 
> Shouldn't one also do s/gawk/awk to the awk.1 man page as well?
> 
Yes, probably, if we so much care about RELENG_4 these days. ;)


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