--- Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see no reason for this yet. Actually, the fink gawk package has > /sw/bin/awk, as a symbolic link to /sw/bin/gawk. This has never > posed a problem for me.
Except for all the prebinding warnings dumped to the console log. When I saw that gawk (which I use profusely) was spamming the console log with these warnings, I removed the fink version, and installed gawk manually. > Not quite clear what you did. Did you replace the /usr/bin/awk > binary by > something else? This would really be a bad idea. > Yes, I did. Why? Because I migrated to Mac from Linux, where gawk was the default awk binary (awk was linked to gawk). All my software uses gawk-style code and it wasn't working with the default awk. So rather than change my software, I just replaced the default awk. Now I know better. I had no idea that the configure scripts rely on awk to be one version rather than the other. That really shouldn't be the case. If you do a man gawk, it says that there's supposed to be some sort of POSIX standard for awk, which they all should conform to. configure scripts should adhere to that standard, but I guess they do not. > > Even worse, today, when I replaced the correct version > > of awk, "fink rebuild dpkg" still wasn't working, > > because the fink build script uses the *old* version > > of dpkg to update to the new version! > > Yeah, when the dpkg package is damaged, Fink is really in trouble. > You are lucky you could get a working dpkg back again. Well I would suggest that fink should know how to rebuild dpkg, and treat it differently from other tasks. After all, I did use fink to rebuild dpkg for the most part; I just had to do a ctrl-c so I could do a sudo make install. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
