Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965127AbXAYBvr (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965134AbXAYBvr (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:47 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:40416 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965127AbXAYBvq (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:46 -0500 From: Rob Landley To: Oleg Verych Subject: Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution (Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:32 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg , LKML References: <200701151624.18033.rob@landley.net> <200701241230.40996.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701242051.34153.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1460 Lines: 34 On Wednesday 24 January 2007 4:03 pm, Oleg Verych wrote: > Let me propose you to test this as solution, that need no awk, only shell: Actually awk is one of the standard Single Unix Specification (version 3) utilities and the kernel build uses it in a number of places, such as arch/alpha/boot/Makefile, drivers/eisa/Makefile, scripts/ver_linux. Your objection is a bit like saying "and don't use cat". I'm saying don't call cat "gcat" when you just mean plain old cat. > p.s. who is going to make alternative to GNU make ? ;D Me. Seriously. It's on my todo list, as part of the Firmware Linux project: http://lwn.net/Articles/215941/ Although as major projects go, it's about fifth down on the list after getting toybox up to speed, writing a proper bash replacement shell, getting tcc to build an unmodified Linux kernel, convincing the uClibc guys to HAVE ANOTHER RELEASE ALREADY (it's been a year and a half, I _sent_ a cake)... Today, I'm writing a gene2fs that produces streaming output (I.E. it works like tar). It's not done yet... Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/