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#39246: Please update MSYS awk; current awk-3.1.7 implementation is too old to 
remain viable

  Open Date: 2019-05-16 19:44
Last Update: 2021-04-01 06:56

URL for this Ticket:
    https://osdn.net//projects/mingw/ticket/39246
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Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket:
2021-04-01 06:56 Updated by: cstrauss

Comment:

Thanks, sizious. The new patch looks good, very similar to the old.
Nice that you were able to drop the Debian patch. Was it upstreamed, do you 
know? 
As for the MSYS_NO_PATHCONV feature, could you please submit it as a new ticket?
Could be done as a patch, or even as a pull request (just tell me the 
repository and branch name).
You can clone the repository at:
git://git.code.sf.net/p/mingw/msys-runtime
Thanks.

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Ticket Status:

      Reporter: keith
         Owner: cstrauss
          Type: Feature Request
        Status: Open [Owner assigned]
      Priority: 5 - Medium
     MileStone: (None)
     Component: MSYS
      Severity: 5 - Medium
    Resolution: None
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Ticket details:

While developing this Mercurial Queues emulation for Git, which will be 
required to support git integration for this proposed MinGW package builder 
tool, I've run into a problem with the MSYS implementation of awk.  On my LMDE 
system, I have awk-4.0.1, and I've written an emulator for "git qselect 
--series", (which I've yet to publish to the git-mq chamber).  This used gawk's 
"asorti()" function, with a custom sort-comparator function, to present the 
output in lexically sorted order; it works fine in awk-4.0.1, but fails on 
MSYS, which offers only awk-3.1.7; (the "asorti()" function appears to be 
supported, but the custom comparator function reference parameter is rejected).
I've since reworked my "git qselect --series" emulation, using my own "qsort()" 
function implementation, instead of gawk's "asorti()" function.  This makes the 
entire emulation significantly more portable, but it may still make sense to 
upgrade the MSYS implementation of awk, such that it will support more modern 
gawk features.

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