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Re: BUILD_DEPENDS



On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:15:45PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> 
>  >> Is it possible to tell "I need POSIX compatible <program>".
>  >> On some systems, for example, awk == oawk.
> 
> > Common assumption is awk == oawk, which works fine most of the time. If
> > it doesn't on a specific platform, those normally request gawk.
> > The reference should of course be the one-true-awk :-)
> This is a very bad assumption at least for pkgsrc itself ;-(
> See the result of it PR #33410.

As I wrote, please *never* argue with the behaviour of GNU tools.
SUS even strongly suggest awk implementations to implement {} correctly,

Joerg


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