On 5/5/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed -- any idea why they differ from the default? I see mawk as Priority: > required whereas gawk is merely Optional. > > Maybe that one wasn't built in a chroot but live on a box with gawk?
Possible, or possibly the chroot wasn't clean... > | (there's no reason to use gawk). Is there a configure option in R to > | specify which awk is used? Build-Conflicts: gawk would work too, but > | it might be a little heavy-handed. > > Presumably I could specify it in the call to configure, but that should > amount to the same as calling for it in the Build-Depends. No, because 'Build-Depends: mawk' would still make it possible for gawk to be installed and found by configure (instead of mawk, which is always installed on a Debian system). Chris -- Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
