On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:53:39PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> For a long while now I've been running with the bwk version of awk
> in preference to the GNU gawk shipped in the base OS. Nothing has
> broken as a result of the change, therefore I'm starting to wonder
> if a NO_AWK macro for make.conf might not be appropriate.
I second this motion. Scripts shouldn't assume that /usr/bin/awk
supports GNU extensions, especially those in the base system. Using BWK
awk in the base system would ensure compatiblity with traditional awk in
addition to removing GPL'd software from the base system.
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