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Re: mawk gawk nawk awk
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: mawk gawk nawk awk |
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:19:41 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: John Poltorak <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:51:30 +0100
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> Just wondered why Autoconf insists on looking for gawk and ignores awk,
> unless $AWK is set...
It doesn't ignore 'awk'; it just prefers 'gawk' if there is one.
On Solaris 8, 'awk' is old awk, and is far inferior to either
/opt/sfw/bin/gawk or /usr/bin/nawk.
This reminds me of the current thread in autoconf-patches about which
shell to use; the issues are similar.