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    Subjectsed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)
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    On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:51:32PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
    > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 4:03 pm, Oleg Verych wrote:
    >
    > > Let me propose you to test this as solution, that need no awk, only shell:
    >
    > Actually awk is one of the standard Single Unix Specification (version 3)
    > utilities and the kernel build uses it in a number of places, such as
    > arch/alpha/boot/Makefile, drivers/eisa/Makefile, scripts/ver_linux.

    I saw that. If you will test my first replacements and it will be ok,
    i will go to this.

    > Your objection is a bit like saying "and don't use cat". I'm saying don't
    > call cat "gcat" when you just mean plain old cat.

    No it's not, really. I don't want to see pipes, fork()s, disk seek,
    when task can be done without it. I know, what awk is, and i hope it
    will have its better time.

    > > p.s. who is going to make alternative to GNU make ? ;D
    >
    > Me. Seriously. It's on my todo list, as part of the Firmware Linux project:

    Well. I didn't expect such answer! So, after my trying to deal with
    makefiles (there so many to cleanup and structure), i think it will be
    easy to do so. I did contacted (ft)jam developers, but didn't get any
    answer on current state of it vs GNU make.

    > http://lwn.net/Articles/215941/
    >
    > Although as major projects go, it's about fifth down on the list after getting
    > toybox up to speed, writing a proper bash replacement shell, getting tcc to
    > build an unmodified Linux kernel, convincing the uClibc guys to HAVE ANOTHER
    > RELEASE ALREADY (it's been a year and a half, I _sent_ a cake)...

    Thanks for information.

    > Today, I'm writing a gene2fs that produces streaming output (I.E. it works
    > like tar). It's not done yet...

    Good luck !

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