Awk issues: system awk vs [ng]awk in ports

[Marius Schamschula]

Vincent,

As the original porter of the gawk and gsed ports, I remember having  
a lengthy exchange about naming these two ports.

Regarding gawk:

By default GNU awk is installed as gawk, with awk linking to it:

Saturn:/usr/local/bin marius$ ls -l *awk
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       4 Feb 21  2006 awk -> gawk
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  803996 Feb 21  2006 gawk
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    3089 Feb 21  2006 igawk
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  806200 Feb 21  2006 pgawk

(Yes, this is not a MacPorts installation...)

On Mar 22, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-03-22 05:47:36 -0400, Randall Wood wrote:
>> I maintain the gnome-doc-util port and am using only the system awk
>> (Mac OS X 10.4.9 ppc)
>
> And I fear that many ports need to be updated to use the MacPorts
> version instead of the system one (not only for awk, but also for
> other utilities). And that's a reason why I think that the "g"
> prefix is a bad idea.
>
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