On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:05:16PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> > yes, you can specify (in)compatible platforms in tools.mk for this
> > reason.
> 
> 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?

g.