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...) On Mar 22, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-03-22 05:47:36 -0400, Randall Wood wrote:
I maintain the gnome-doc-util port and am using only the system awk (Mac OS X 10.4.9 ppc)
And I fear that many ports need to be updated to use the MacPorts version instead of the system one (not only for awk, but also for other utilities). And that's a reason why I think that the "g" prefix is a bad idea.
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