[MPlayer-cvslog] r23335 - in trunk: configure vidix/Makefile

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:42:01 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> What version of awk is this? 

/usr/bin/awk from solaris 9. 
 
> What exactly is triggering the syntax error?

I think the same as 5 years ago: the funciton definition/call

> > Please revert.
> 
> I'd much rather fix the awk script to be more portable.  The "test" we
> had in configure was useless anyway.  It probably chose GNU awk before
> Solaris awk on your system.

No, it choose gawk if available, nawk otherwise.

> Also, I'm rather sick of all these Solaris workarounds and very tempted
> to just remove them.

Yes. It's sick how much outdated stuff there is in 
the standard path[1]. But don't even try to start
thinking like these Linux=Unix people and assume
that everyone uses a GNU userland.

			Attila Kinali

[1] Yes, there is a modern version of nearly all standard
tools available on solaris in /usr/xpg4/bin/, but hardly
anyone seems to know it.

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