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

Paul Beard paulbeard at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 07:35:18 PDT 2007


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On Mar 22, 2007, at 2:47 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

> I maintain the gnome-doc-util port and am using only the system awk  
> (Mac OS X 10.4.9 ppc)
>
> I haven't the time to look at the port until this weekend though.

Well, all I know is that "awk -W" works on systems with gawk  
installed and doesn't where it's missing. The gawk man page or simply  
running awk -W (on a system w/o gawk) should make it plain.
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