Hi Serhei,
On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 16:35 -0400, Serhei Makarov wrote:
> There's also the possibility of awk being powerful enough to make
> me want to use it. Do you know if awk is considered sufficiently
> standard for the testsuite to depend on it?
We already check for GNU awk in configure for maintainer mode:
AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GAWK, gawk, yes, no)
if test "$HAVE_GAWK" = "no"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([gawk needed in maintainer mode])
fi
I don't think it would be a problem to do that for non-maintainer-mode
too.
Cheers,
Mark
