On 5/5/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 5 May 2005 at 22:46, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> | On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:25:42PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> | > Could be something in how r-base is built on amd64... Dirk, any ideas?
> | > I think it has something to do with /usr/lib/R/etc/Renviron.
> |
> | It says:
> | ## Use configure values
> | AWK=${AWK-'gawk'}
> |
> | While on i386 it says:
> | ## Use configure values
> | AWK=${AWK-'mawk'}
>
> As I said in the previous mail, this is determined during built-time of __R__
> itself:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep AWK src/debian/R/R-2.1.0/etc/Renviron.in
> AWK=${AWK-'@AWK@'}
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>
>
> Now, would we need gawk everywhere? Then I'll add it for 2.1.0-2. Do we need
> that soon?
>
> Or could the amd64 crowd enforce that locally /for now/ and I will have it
> enforce globally by the next upload of R ?
Well, ideally we should get the amd64 port to build with AWK=mawk
(there's no reason to use gawk). Is there a configure option in R to
specify which awk is used? Build-Conflicts: gawk would work too, but
it might be a little heavy-handed.
Chris
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