On 22 Mar 2007, at 14:50, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-03-22 08:49:24 -0500, Marius Schamschula wrote:
Vincent,
As the original porter of the gawk and gsed ports, I remember having a lengthy exchange about naming these two ports.
Regarding gawk:
By default GNU awk is installed as gawk, with awk linking to it:
Saturn:/usr/local/bin marius$ ls -l *awk lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 21 2006 awk -> gawk -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 803996 Feb 21 2006 gawk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3089 Feb 21 2006 igawk -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 806200 Feb 21 2006 pgawk
(Yes, this is not a MacPorts installation...)
Well, the default behavior is OK: The main point is that there is a version of the executable without the prefix. And I don't think that MacPorts should remove it
Ports that use the autoconf-based configure system seem to be mostly aware of the potential difference between gawk, mawk, nawk, and awk, and check to know which one is being used. If an upstream developer assumes that all awks are like gawk, maybe the port maintainer needs to submit a bug report helping the developer work around gawk's extended non-POSIX feature set.
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