John == John Poltorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John I have just re-installed Autoconf v2.50 without GAWK on the PATH
John and no AWK variable set. When attempting to build SED, autoconf
John complains with:-
Why do you need Autoconf to build Sed?
John autoconf.[753]: gawk: not found
sh -x
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:52:38PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
John == John Poltorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John I have just re-installed Autoconf v2.50 without GAWK on the PATH
John and no AWK variable set. When attempting to build SED, autoconf
John complains with:-
Why do you need
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:19:41AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
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
Hi,
I want to ask about the awk search order of autoconf. It
seems that mawk is currently preferred, since it's
generally faster. However I understand the opinion is that
gawk is a better awk than mawk, so how about making that the
first choice. In this day and age of very fast machines, I
From: Jens Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05 Oct 2001 18:20:51 +0900
I want to ask about the awk search order of autoconf. It
seems that mawk is currently preferred, since it's
generally faster. However I understand the opinion is that
gawk is a better awk than mawk, so how about
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:41:53AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
From: Jens Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05 Oct 2001 18:20:51 +0900
I want to ask about the awk search order of autoconf. It
seems that mawk is currently preferred, since it's
generally faster. However I understand the
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
