On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:56:52AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > It's interesting that awk is required. I've been attempting to keep > nbdkit from requiring awk (but we do require sed). > > In config.log I see: > > $ grep -i awk config.log > configure:5226: checking for gawk > configure:5247: found /usr/bin/gawk > configure:5258: result: gawk > ac_cv_prog_AWK=gawk > AWK='gawk' > > but I can't tell where that's coming from ...
Autoconf itself uses awk during ./config.status to generate config.h from config.h.in, and Automake requires it for 'make check' to support TAP output. A quick search of the generated configure finds this telling section: # We need awk for the "check" target (and possibly the TAP driver). The # system "awk" is bad on some platforms. # Always define AMTAR for backward compatibility. Yes, it's still used I agree that we don't directly use awk in any code we've written, but GNU tools have long assumed that any Unix-like system has awk available. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Virtualization: qemu.org | libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
