Re: mawk gawk nawk awk

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:41:53AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Jens Petersen <address@hidden>
> > Date: 05 Oct 2001 18:20:51 +0900
> > 
> > I want to ask about the awk search order of autoconf.  It
> > seems that mawk is currently preferred, "since it's
> > generally faster".  However I understand the opinion is that
> > gawk is a better awk than mawk, so how about making that the
> > first choice.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me.  Please don't forget to include a patch for
> the documentation.
> 
> We tend to prefer mawk for the high-performance text processing that
> we do around here.  But there hasn't been a new release of mawk for
> five years, whereas gawk development is still quite active.

Just wondered why Autoconf insists on looking for gawk and ignores awk, 
unless $AWK is set...

I prefer to use the name awk which is what I have GNU AWK renamed as.


-- 
John