Re: POSIXLY_CORRECT not correctly unset in getopt.m4?

[Eric Blake]

On 09/07/2010 03:05 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ let's drop at least bug-standards ]
>
> * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:38:52PM CEST:
> > More precisely, does AC_PROG_AWK guarantee us an awk that will
> > understand ENVIRON?
>
> I think so, yes.

After further testing, I'm starting to think so as well.  AC_PROG_AWK is 
indeed documented as favoring [gmn]awk over the traditional version.  I 
found that IRIX 5.3 has a deficient traditional awk, but does have a 
working /usr/bin/nawk:

$ uname -a
IRIX xxx 5.3 11091812 IP22 mips unknown Irix
$ foo=bar /bin/awk 'BEGIN { print ENVIRON["foo"] }' </dev/null

$ foo=bar nawk 'BEGIN { print ENVIRON["foo"] }' </dev/null
bar
$

I also tested Solaris, AIX 4.3.3, FreeBSD, and Darwin, so I've covered a 
decent smattering of systems where [mn]awk is not likely to be GNU awk.

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