Awk issues: system awk vs [ng]awk in ports

[Vincent Lefevre]

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.

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