[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/doc document security/libgpg-error awk on IRIX hack

[jschauma <jschauma%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/47d724fddf83
branches:  trunk
changeset: 493855:47d724fddf83
user:      jschauma <jschauma%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Sun May 15 22:23:09 2005 +0000

description:
document security/libgpg-error awk on IRIX hack

diffstat:

 doc/HACKS |  20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (31 lines):

diff -r 1816e2724ee9 -r 47d724fddf83 doc/HACKS
--- a/doc/HACKS Sun May 15 22:22:48 2005 +0000
+++ b/doc/HACKS Sun May 15 22:23:09 2005 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: HACKS,v 1.29 2004/11/02 17:48:04 sketch Exp $
+# $NetBSD: HACKS,v 1.30 2005/05/15 22:23:09 jschauma Exp $
 #
 # This file is intended to document workarounds for currently unsolved
 # (mostly) compiler bugs.
@@ -472,3 +472,21 @@
        breaks on at least net/libIDL.  BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM -O* away until
        the root cause can be fixed.
 kcah
+
+hack   security/libgpg-error awk on IRIX
+cdate  Sun May 15 18:08:48 EDT 2005
+who    jschauma
+port   mipseb (IRIX)
+file   security/libgpg-error/Makefile
+descr
+       Apparently, for as of yet undetermined reasons, gawk as built on IRIX
+       under pkgsrc croaks on regular expressions including a combination of
+       alpha- and numerical matches, such as the rather trivial
+       /^[ \t]*[0-9]+/
+       Let's use the system's AWK (ie nawk) for this package to avoid
+       breaking hundreds of dependents.
+       Speculation: somehow the regular expression library used to build gawk
+       conflicts with the systems regular expression library or some such.
+       Note: gawk from SGIs freeware collection depends on expat -- why is
+       that?  Does that have anything to do with anything?
+kcah