[PATCH/resend] Document awk requirements

[PATCH/resend] Document awk requirements

[Luca Tettamanti]

Gnu awk is required for generating generating
arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:

 GEN     arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
 Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.

mawk doesn't work anymore.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
---
Hum, who is in charge of the documentation?
Masami can you push it?

 Documentation/Changes |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index f08b313..abec6f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ o  udev                   081                     # udevinfo -V
 o  grub                   0.93                    # grub --version
 o  mcelog		  0.6
 o  iptables               1.4.1                   # iptables -V
+o  Gnu awk                3.1.5                   # awk --version
 
 
 Kernel compilation

Re: [PATCH/resend] Document awk requirements

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:45 +0100 Luca Tettamanti wrote:

> Gnu awk is required for generating generating
> arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:
> 
>  GEN     arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
>  Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
> 
> mawk doesn't work anymore.

Hi,
Did you try this patch?

Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk


> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> ---
> Hum, who is in charge of the documentation?

It depends on which documentation.  I am for some of it.
GregKH for some of it.  Other people for other parts of it.

But for this one, I could merge it, but I think that it's not needed
due to the patch that I mentioned above.  If your patch is still
needed, Andrew or I can merge it.



> Masami can you push it?
> 
>  Documentation/Changes |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
> index f08b313..abec6f2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Changes
> +++ b/Documentation/Changes
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ o  udev                   081                     # udevinfo -V
>  o  grub                   0.93                    # grub --version
>  o  mcelog		  0.6
>  o  iptables               1.4.1                   # iptables -V
> +o  Gnu awk                3.1.5                   # awk --version
>  
>  
>  Kernel compilation
> --


---
~Randy

Re: [PATCH/resend] Document awk requirements

[Luca Tettamanti]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:45 +0100 Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>
>> Gnu awk is required for generating generating
>> arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:
>>
>>  GEN     arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
>>  Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
>>
>> mawk doesn't work anymore.
>
> Hi,
> Did you try this patch?
>
> Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk

Ah, yes. mawk is once again able to build inat-tables.c. The patch can
be dropped.

thanks,
Luca

Re: [PATCH/resend] Document awk requirements

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi Luca,

As Randy said, gen-insn-attr-x86.awk doesn't need gawk anymore,

> Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk

because above patch removes POSIX character classes.
So I think we don't need to update Documentation/Changes.

Thank you,


Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Gnu awk is required for generating generating
> arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c:
> 
>  GEN     arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
>  Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
> 
> mawk doesn't work anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> ---
> Hum, who is in charge of the documentation?
> Masami can you push it?
> 
>  Documentation/Changes |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
> index f08b313..abec6f2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Changes
> +++ b/Documentation/Changes
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ o  udev                   081                     # udevinfo -V
>  o  grub                   0.93                    # grub --version
>  o  mcelog		  0.6
>  o  iptables               1.4.1                   # iptables -V
> +o  Gnu awk                3.1.5                   # awk --version
>  
>  
>  Kernel compilation
> --
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Masami Hiramatsu

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