On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:28:36PM +0200, Bruno Haible via Bug reports for autoconf wrote: > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Awk is a standard Posix utility: > > <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html>. > > The newest POSIX is POSIX:2024. Update your URLs: > <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/idx/utilities.html>.
Just because it is a POSIX utility doesn't matter - in the modern world of container images, the goal is to start as bare-bones as possible (intentionally NOT a full POSIX environment) and then explicitly document what additional tools are needed for whatever task your container will be doing. If your container will be running a configure script, it appears that the distros now want it to be your responsibility, as a prerequisite of preparing that container, to pull in additional POSIX utilities that the configure script will rely on, rather than assuming that the distro has provided them out-of-the-box. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Virtualization: qemu.org | libguestfs.org
