Re: [patch] use POSIX awk expression rather than GNU extension

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thursday 27 December 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > there is no requirement that `awk` be GNU awk.
>
> Says who?  We always and everywhere take advantage of all the GNU tools
> and extensions.  This has always been the case for all the tools.

taking advantage of is not the same as requiring.  if you're going to make the 
build system stupid, at least stop executing `awk`.  the last release 
executed `awk` explicitly, so at least cvs fixed it to $(AWK).  configure.in 
uses AC_PROG_AWK which means it defaults to awk, not gawk.

wile you're in the process of making glibc stupid, please stop lying to people 
and delete all non-GNU directories.  keeping them implies glibc can actually 
be used on other platforms.  *bsd*, irix, hpux, etc...
-mike

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