On 22 Mar 2007, at 09:29, 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.
NO!
Many ports need to have bug reports submitted to upstream maintainers
to have non-POSIX [g|m|n]awk dependencies fixed. Since gawk behaves
differently than awk (and needs to be passed flags to prevent that
different behavior), we do not want to risk breaking a port whose
upstream maintainers are aware of and have worked around that issue.
The problem with gnome-doc-utils is that the upstream maintainers
accidently left some code in to force gawk to behave like awk when
they shipped it, knowing that on linux, awk = gawk[1]. This port's
configure system correctly detects for the presence of gawk, mawk,
nawk, and awk (in that order).
In any event, the next version of gnome-doc-utils will have this
fixed, and, in the meantime, the Portfile has this fixed as of
changeset 23035[2]. Port sync, port clean gnome-doc-utils, and build
again. I did not bump the revision as users with gawk installed would
not have noticed this problem.
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378739
[2] http://svn.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/23035
Randall Wood
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"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
All the
rest is just philosophy."
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