No objections and 2x +1, so I will commit virtual/awk to ~arch and app-admin/eselect-awk to ~arch & masked for testing.
Please port packages to virtual/awk (if possible) and make bug reports block on the awk porting tracker (bug #418473). 2012/5/29 Christoph Junghans <ott...@gentoo.org>: > Hi, > > recently I stumbled across a problem with mawk, which is apprearly > Ubuntu's default awk interpreter. > This brought the idea to my mind of adding a virtual for awk. Beside > the fact that we already have 3 awk interpreters in gx86 (gawk, mawk > and busybox awk), there are other ones like nawk and awka. > > I had some discussions with spanKY on that topic in bug #415689, which > summarizes in the following: > > Advantages: > - mawk is faster - useful for scientific purposes > - busybox awk could replace gawk on minimal systems > - more POSIX conform systems > > Disadvantages: > - some awk code in the tree and portage is probably using GNU > extensions without executing gawk explicitly > - gray zone of Posix 1003.2 (e.g. substr() function and an index of 0) > > What we would need: > - virtual/awk > - app-admin/eselect-awk (version available in cj-overlay) > and > - testing and migration of existing packages using gawk > <http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/sys-apps/gawk> > and > <http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/dindex/sys-apps/gawk> > to name a few. > > I have tested mawk as default interpreter for a while on my x86 boxes > and didn't observed any problems so far. > > Cheers, > > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Junghans > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ -- Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/
