[MPlayer-dev-eng] latest CVS

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, GАbor!

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:32:27 +0100 you wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:53:24PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > > gzip -d -c oth/pci.db.gz >pci.db
> > > gawk -f pci_db2c.awk pci.db
> > > make[1]: gawk: Command not found
> > > make[1]: *** [pci_names.c] Error 127
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory /home/gabucino/mplayer/src/libdha'
> > > make: *** [libdha/libdha.so] Error 2
> > > --(gabucino at woodstock)-(45/pts)-(Gabucino rulez!)--
> > > --($:~/mplayer)-- cat /etc/lfs-version
> > > 
> > > LFS (Linux From Scratch) version CVS-2001.10.15
> > > 
> > Please download and install it (it's GNU utilities - it's standard)
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.0.6.tar.gz
> 
> Ehhhm. Here (Debian sid) awk is a symlink to mawk, and NO gawk is installed
> (though I can install gawk). AND it's in gawk and mawk packages in Debian
> (not in fileutils), though both of Debian packages mawk and gawk provides
> 'awk' and only this dependency information is used by other packages (so you
> can't remove both of mawk and gawk without breaking dependency but you CAN
> install mawk OR gawk only). Imho, if at least two distribution indicates
> that gawk is not a standard, we should follow this (whatever this is true or
> not).
Any version?
> 
> > > Why should we?
> 
> Please use standard awk instead of gawk. It's more portable and you won't
> worry about awk implementation installed. Oh, and another point: mawk
> is faster than gawk ...
> 
Gawk spends 3 sec under WinNT on Cel1-266 ;)
> -- 
> - GАbor
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Best regards! Nick