On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Rainer Jung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13.11.2009 01:38, Jeff Trawick wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> Author: trawick >>>> Date: Thu Nov 12 20:14:51 2009 >>>> New Revision: 835524 >>>> >>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=835524&view=rev >>>> Log: >>>> pick up r834900 and r834923 from mod_fcgid >>>> >>>> Follow up the awk compatibility fix in r834729 by selecting the most >>>> suitable awk, following the AC_PROG_AWK order (gawk, mawk, nawk, awk). >>>> As with AC_PROG_AWK, AWK=foo overrides. >>>> >>>> After r834729 a working conf was generated on Solaris when using >>>> /usr/bin/awk, but only by some fluke of command-line processing >>>> (-v was sort-of ignored; see PR for discussion). Also, the LoadModule >>>> wasn't added in the right spot due to awk engine differences. >>> >>> Can't we take $AWK given in config_vars.mk/apr_rules.mk instead, using APXS? >> >> As of this commit, yes. >> As of the next commit, which works around missing tolower() in nawk on >> some levels of Solaris by preferring /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, no. >> >> I don't know levels of Solaris don't have tolower() in nawk. Perhaps >> it isn't a practical concern. > > Solaris 8 with man pages from 1999 has a working nawk tolower(). I tried > just now.
Solaris 8 is downright futuristic compared with the software levels of some of the sunfreeware.com users ;) > > Furthermore the page > > http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/awkcompat.html > > contains nice tables stating that for 2.5 until 8 tolower() works for > nawk. So I'd say not a practical concern. way cool; the lack of tolower() in Sun-delivered nawk must have been a SunOS memory todos++
