From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Andrew Isaacson <adi@vmware.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_KPROBES=y build requires gawk
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:02:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091217030222.GU14381@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B299AB5.7020109@zytor.com>
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:43:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/16/2009 05:39 PM, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Is there any reason not to apply the patch below, to allow more awk
> > implementations to be used? After all, it's not like we're going to put
> > non-ASCII characters into the map file...
>
> I guess the question is if it will break under any other circumstances,
> but I guess we can find those when we get to them.
>
> There was a long discussion about the use of awk on IRC today.
> Apparently mawk, in particular, is actively broken, because the
> maintainer believe that POSIX is crap. There are quite a few issues
> with it, according to reports.
still is more compact than gawk, less loaded with GNU "extensions" and
happens to be default on debian and debian-derived userlands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-16 23:56 CONFIG_KPROBES=y build requires gawk Andrew Isaacson
2009-12-17 1:19 ` Al Viro
2009-12-17 3:43 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 4:30 ` Al Viro
2009-12-17 5:16 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 1:39 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 2:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 3:02 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-12-17 4:09 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 5:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 5:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 5:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 4:09 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-17 3:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 3:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 4:12 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-17 4:15 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 4:56 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 5:11 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 5:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 5:43 ` Rob Landley
2009-12-17 5:49 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 5:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 6:06 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 6:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 6:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 6:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 6:51 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 13:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 5:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-12-17 5:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 6:17 ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 6:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 7:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-12-17 8:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-12-17 11:34 ` Michal Marek
2009-12-17 16:18 ` [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 22:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-12-17 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 23:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 23:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 23:41 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 23:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 23:49 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 23:58 ` [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: Unexport LC_ALL instead of clearing it tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 23:40 ` [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C Roland Dreier
2009-12-17 23:44 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 23:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 23:54 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 14:50 ` CONFIG_KPROBES=y build requires gawk H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17 10:42 ` Michal Marek
2009-12-17 13:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17 16:18 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk tip-bot for Roland Dreier
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