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Re: mawk gawk nawk awk
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John Poltorak |
Subject: |
Re: mawk gawk nawk awk |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:51:30 +0100 |
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:41:53AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Jens Petersen <address@hidden>
> > Date: 05 Oct 2001 18:20:51 +0900
> >
> > I want to ask about the awk search order of autoconf. It
> > seems that mawk is currently preferred, "since it's
> > generally faster". However I understand the opinion is that
> > gawk is a better awk than mawk, so how about making that the
> > first choice.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me. Please don't forget to include a patch for
> the documentation.
>
> We tend to prefer mawk for the high-performance text processing that
> we do around here. But there hasn't been a new release of mawk for
> five years, whereas gawk development is still quite active.
Just wondered why Autoconf insists on looking for gawk and ignores awk,
unless $AWK is set...
I prefer to use the name awk which is what I have GNU AWK renamed as.
--
John