I would guess the latest update Dec, 2012, doesn't off any worth upgrading for,
[1] Dec 20, 2012: fiddled makefile to get correct yacc and bison flags. pick yacc (linux) or bison (mac) as necessary. added __attribute__((__noreturn__)) to a couple of lines in proto.h, to silence someone's enthusiastic checker. fixed obscure call by value bug in split(a[1],a) reported on 9fans. the management of temporary values is just a mess; i took a shortcut by making an extra string copy. thanks to paul patience and arnold robbins for passing it on and for proposed patches. tiny fiddle in setfval to eliminate -0 results in T.expr, which has irritated me for 20+ years. [1] https://github.com/danfuzz/one-true-awk/blob/master/versions/2012-12-20/FIXES On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki <ni...@kobschaetzki.net> wrote: > >> On 19. Oct 2017, at 06:23, flipchan <flipc...@riseup.net> wrote: >> >> Yeah blindly follow the flow of the others , DONT THINK SO > > That doesn’t explain the reasoning WHY the newer awk is not used. > >>> On October 19, 2017 4:25:09 AM GMT+02:00, Andras Farkas >>> <deepbluemist...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On the 6.2 release page, and confirmed in the source code, one can see >>> The system includes the following major components from outside >>> suppliers: >>> Awk Aug 10, 2011 version >>> This turns out to be one release behind upstream, where the latest >>> release is from December 20 2012: a quick check shows that >>> DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD all use this version. >>> >>> Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why OpenBSD uses the 2011 >>> release? > > Niels
