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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 ! ____
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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