Hi Serhei, On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 16:35 -0400, Serhei Makarov wrote: > There's also the possibility of awk being powerful enough to make > me want to use it. Do you know if awk is considered sufficiently > standard for the testsuite to depend on it?
We already check for GNU awk in configure for maintainer mode: AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GAWK, gawk, yes, no) if test "$HAVE_GAWK" = "no"; then AC_MSG_ERROR([gawk needed in maintainer mode]) fi I don't think it would be a problem to do that for non-maintainer-mode too. Cheers, Mark