> From: John Poltorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:51:30 +0100 > > Just wondered why Autoconf insists on looking for gawk and ignores awk, > unless $AWK is set...
It doesn't ignore 'awk'; it just prefers 'gawk' if there is one. On Solaris 8, 'awk' is old awk, and is far inferior to either /opt/sfw/bin/gawk or /usr/bin/nawk. This reminds me of the current thread in autoconf-patches about which shell to use; the issues are similar.
