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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:40:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070125094051.GA9725@flower.upol.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701242051.34153.rob@landley.net>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-25 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-15 21:24 [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh Rob Landley
2007-01-15 22:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-01-24 0:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-24 17:30 ` Rob Landley
2007-01-24 21:03 ` [rft] (g)awk substitution (Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh) Oleg Verych
2007-01-24 22:44 ` [patch, rft] scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: replace gawk with shell, whitespace cleanup Oleg Verych
2007-01-24 23:30 ` [patch, rft] scripts/makelst: replace gawk with shell, update Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 1:51 ` [rft] (g)awk substitution (Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh) Rob Landley
2007-01-25 9:40 ` Oleg Verych [this message]
2007-01-25 18:03 ` sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution) Rob Landley
2007-01-25 19:14 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 19:38 ` Rob Landley
2007-01-25 21:18 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-26 17:47 ` Rob Landley
2007-01-26 20:14 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-27 0:18 ` Tim Schmielau
2007-01-27 6:38 ` scripts/makelst: bc -> shell " Oleg Verych
2007-02-03 11:24 ` David Weinehall
2007-02-03 13:10 ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-03 11:13 ` David Weinehall
2007-02-02 16:36 ` [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh Adrian Bunk
2007-02-02 21:01 ` Oleg Verych
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