/me wonders whether the MIT relicensing of Plan 9 means there's now an MIT licensed descendant/sibling of one true awk?
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:30 AM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/8/21 9:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Andy Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Let's see... https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awktest.a > is > >> > an ar archive, ar x awktest.a gives a directory full of files, > >> > README.TESTS says REGRESS controls the testing process, running that > does... > >> > > >> > $ sh ./REGRESS > >> > Linux driftwood 4.2.0-38-generic #45~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 9 > >> > 09:27:51 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > >> > echo compiled > >> > oldawk=awk, awk=../a.out > >> > ./REGRESS: 11: ./REGRESS: Compare.t: not found > >> > 167 tests > >> > > >> > ./REGRESS: 14: ./REGRESS: Compare.p: not found > >> > 58 tests > >> > > >> > ./REGRESS: 17: ./REGRESS: Compare.T: not found > >> > 252 tests > >> > > >> > ./REGRESS: 20: ./REGRESS: Compare.tt: not found > >> > 21 tests > >> > > >> > Right, maybe I'll dig into this later but it's not obvious to me how > to > >> > get it to work. > >> > >> OK, I published the work I did here: https://github.com/andychu/bwk > > > > Maybe this is old news but I think it is still good to say here. > > One True awk has its own repo now. > > https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk > > > > And it seems that Android P included it as well. > > I know. Under yet another bespoke public domain adjacent "drag around this > blob > of text verbatim" license: > > https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/master/LICENSE > > Which means I can't incorporate it as-is into a public domain equivalently > licensed toybox without changing the project's license. > > > Does toybox's roadmap have any change about it since then? > > If I'm going to get a system to rebuild itself under itself from source in > 4 > packages, which is then capable of bootstrapping to arbitrarily complexity > natively under the result by building more packages that have existing > build > systems, then awk has to be in one of those packages. > > Awk is in posix: > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html > > And the last version of busybox I released (1.2.1, circa 2007) had a ~2800 > line > awk implementation, so it shouldn't be too hard to get something feasible > in > toybox (probably under 1000 lines? Dunno.) > > The main issue is I don't use awk much, so need to learn it to write one. > (But > the posix spec is probably mostly good enough? Then testing all the LFS > package > builds, and waiting for complaints...) > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net >
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