James Cloos wrote:
> should the scripts also check for 'busybox awk' in $PATH?
Do they check for other commands that way?
It should not be necessary, unless we want to allow for a
busybox that is installed strangely.
On 2025-04-18 10:32, Zack Weinberg wrote:
this hypothetical 'shawk' would be
a *harder* task than converting all the existing unconditional uses of
awk to use sed instead.
In 2007 we starting using awk in config.status because sed didn't always
handle backslash-newline correctly, and because o
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I'm concerned about rewriting efforts, they tend to never get finished.
Right. And the target of the rewrite should be something that is not
changing rapidly. Because users in the year 2040 should be able to take
a tarball packaged in 2030 and configure and build it. This
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025, at 12:48 PM, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for autoconf
wrote:
> "Zack Weinberg" writes: I think the main aspect
> here is to see if we can find unnecessary dependencies on some tools,
> and fix them. Sometimes code that rely on 'cmp' or 'diff' can be
> rewritten in some
"Zack Weinberg" writes:
> For additional clarity, the purpose of AC_PROG_AWK (and AC_PROG_SED and
> AC_PROG_*GREP) is to find the _best available implementation_ of these
> utilities, not to determine whether they exist at all. Autoconf core
> code assumes that all three exist in some form.
>
>
On 2025-04-17 09:46, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I don't think it's worth making a distinction here between Autoconf and
"Autoconf + Automake", since most packages that use Autoconf also use
Automake.
I would appreciate distinguishing this, it helps to make it more clear
where dependencies are coming
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 08:31:08AM +0200, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion
list wrote:
> Hi
>
> I got a CI/CD build failure [1] for libidn on the new release fedora 42.
It's not just Fedora 42; OpenSUSE did the same back in last August:
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci/-/merge_requests
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025, at 7:31 AM, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for autoconf
wrote:
> Paul Eggert writes:
>> On 2025-04-16 23:31, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for
>> autoconf wrote:
>>
>>> I tried reading through the autoconf manual to see if 'awk' is a run-
>>> time dependency for running g
