Re: [refpolicy][PATCH] fix Makefile BASE_MODS and MOD_MODS detection

["Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 11:11 +1100, Johan Fischer wrote:
> the solution to the problem....
> 
> make sure that you're using gawk and not mawk as the default awk on your
> system.
> 
> possibly the gawk and mawk way of adding extra anchors might be
> different making it fail on my installation ( I don't how when I
> installed mawk or why, but anyway....)

Perhaps the awk commands should be changed to gawk.  I wouldn't think it
would be a problem; it doesn't seem likely that a policy will be built
on a non-GNU system.

> Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:35 +1100, Johan Fischer wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>quick patch to fix the modules detection from the modules.conf file...
> >>
> >>before:
> >>$ awk '/^[[:blank:]]*[[:alpha:]]/{ if ($3 == "module") print $1 }'
> >>policy/modules.conf
> >>(no result)
> >>
> >>after:
> >>$ awk '/^[[:blank:]]*[[:alpha:]]*/{ if ($3 == "module") print $1 }'
> >>policy/modules.conf
> >>apm
> >>apache
> >>bluetooth
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I can't reproduce this behavior.  I don't believe this patch is correct,
> >as it makes the regex too inspecific.  With the change, the regex
> >matches all lines, so if the second word in a comment was "module", it
> >would print out "#", causing errors.
> > 
> >  
> >
> 
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Chris PeBenito
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