[uClibc]Re: Awk poetry ;) [was: awk replacement for initfini.pl]

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 14 October 2002 10:47 pm, Jim Treadway wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Christian MICHON <christian_michon at yahoo.fr> writes:
> > > = save as initfini.awk ============
> > > = cut here ========================
> > > #! /usr/bin/awk -f
> >
> > Note that for historical reasons, it's often preferable to use
> > `/usr/bin/nawk' instead (some systems, notably those from sun, keep
> > horrible braindead not-used-since-1982 versions of awk in /usr/bin/awk;
> > most modern systems just have awk and nawk pointing at the same program).
>
> Note that Red Hat 7.2 and Red Hat 7.3 systems don't seem to have
> /usr/bin/nawk (or /usr/bin/nawk for that matter).
>
> 	/bin/awk -> gawk
> 	/bin/gawk
> 	/usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/gawk
> 	/usr/bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk
>
> Jim

linux from scratch recently switched from nawk to gawk (gnu awk).  I'm 
thinking of switching back, in my continuing quest to get a system which 
honestly can NOT be described as "GNU/Linux", even by the most rabid fanatic. 
:)

Rob

(Now if I could just get tcc to compile...  well, anything, really...)