Hi,

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:16 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > I still would prefer (1) or (2) since this would ensure that the same
> > awk would be used on all platforms. This would prevent potential
> > incompatibilities.
> 
> (1) is right out since it would mean that I wouldn't be able to
> compile e2fsprogs on my system without first uninstalling gawk.  Not
> Going To Happen.

As a responsible maintainer, you are using pbuilder for preparing
uploads anyway. This way, you don't need to uninstall gawk.

> (2) is better, but it will force everyone to install gawk on their
> system if they want to install comerr-dev.  

Right.

> However, the awk swcript was originally written to be highly portable,
> so I expect that it should work just fine regardless of whether gawk
> or mawk is installed on a particular system.

OK.

bye,
  Roland



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