[MPlayer-dev-eng] latest CVS

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:00:38PM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Saturday, 12. January 2002 22:20, you wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:00:40PM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 12. January 2002 17:31, you wrote:
> > > > The only problem is: on Arpi's system (Slackware) awk is a symlink for
> > > > gawk, on my system it's a symlink for mawk, and noone (?) tested it
> > > with > the original(?)-awk. Btw, it worked with gawk,mawk, it could work
> > > with awk, > so change it (btw, read my standpoint about is_awk_needed in
> > > my previous > mail)
> > > on my laptop (SuSE) awk is symlink to gawk. on my server (LFS) it's
> > > symlink to mawk, doesn't matter as long as it's awk compatible.
> > > Only thing I had to do, was to change awk version check to -W version
> > > which works with both mawk and gawk and hopefully original awk. --version
> > > is only known by gawk!
> >
> > freku045 at astmatix:~$ uname -a
> > SunOS astmatix.ida.liu.se 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
> > freku045 at astmatix:~$ nawk -W version
> > nawk: unknown option -W ignored
> > ^C
> > freku045 at astmatix:~$ awk -W version
> > awk: syntax error near line 1
> > awk: bailing out near line 1
> I dunno nawk, does nawk --version work?
> 

no. From the man page:

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/bin/nawk [ -F ERE ]  [  -v assignment  ]   'program'  |
               -f progfile ...  [ argument ... ]

> IMHO we should check in configure for mawk, then gawk, then nawk and then 
> awk...

That seems to be a good idea.

/ Fredrik Kuivinen