[MPlayer-dev-eng] latest CVS

[Alex Beregszaszi]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:25:42PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> Hello, Gábor!
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:32:27 +0100 you wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:53:24PM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > > > gzip -d -c oth/pci.db.gz >pci.db
> > > > gawk -f pci_db2c.awk pci.db
> > > > make[1]: gawk: Command not found
> > > > make[1]: *** [pci_names.c] Error 127
> > > > make[1]: Leaving directory /home/gabucino/mplayer/src/libdha'
> > > > make: *** [libdha/libdha.so] Error 2
> > > > --(gabucino at woodstock)-(45/pts)-(Gabucino rulez!)--
> > > > --($:~/mplayer)-- cat /etc/lfs-version
> > > > 
> > > > LFS (Linux From Scratch) version CVS-2001.10.15
> > > > 
> > > Please download and install it (it's GNU utilities - it's standard)
> > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.0.6.tar.gz
> > 
> > Ehhhm. Here (Debian sid) awk is a symlink to mawk, and NO gawk is installed
> > (though I can install gawk). AND it's in gawk and mawk packages in Debian
> > (not in fileutils), though both of Debian packages mawk and gawk provides
> > 'awk' and only this dependency information is used by other packages (so you
> > can't remove both of mawk and gawk without breaking dependency but you CAN
> > install mawk OR gawk only). Imho, if at least two distribution indicates
> > that gawk is not a standard, we should follow this (whatever this is true or
> > not).
> Any version?
> > 
> > > > Why should we?
> > 
> > Please use standard awk instead of gawk. It's more portable and you won't
> > worry about awk implementation installed. Oh, and another point: mawk
> > is faster than gawk ...
> > 
> Gawk spends 3 sec under WinNT on Cel1-266 ;)

And mawk?:) (Gabucino's awk spends 10sec under Linux on a 486 box)

> > -- 
> > - Gábor
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> 
> 
> Best regards! Nick
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