On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, grant beattie wrote:

> > I see that was done shortly ago also for Irix. Does this mean that the
> > change for xmlcatmgr was not needed then?
>
> yes, probably.
>
> > (Why both changes?)
>
> having USE_GNU_TOOLS+=awk in xmlcatmgr would indicate that the
> package, in general, requires GNU awk.
>
> _TOOLS_OPSYS_INCOMPAT.awk+=IRIX-*-* in tools.mk indicates that GNU
> awk should always be pulled in for IRIX as the base system awk is too
> broken for "normal" use.
>
> so they play a related, but not identical part. does that make sense?

Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking.

We already fixed xmlcatmgr for mawk a month or two ago. We might as well
let xmlcatmrg use mawk since we already made the effort for it.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/