shapj@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> You will need to have gawk. Regrettably, some of the scripts actually use
> GNU-isms (I'm so embarassed).
FreeBSD awk is GNU awk, its just called awk, not gawk. I've got 2.15p5.
> I will, however, set up makefile variables for both gawk and cpp and use
> the variables in preference to the program names. I should have done this
> originally, and I was lazy.
>
> A long time ago I put a bit of thought into the whole build environment
> issue. I concluded that when the need arose I would do
> environment-specific include files that would get pulled into makevars.mk,
> and if absolutely unavoidable into makerules.mk. The general idea was to
> add yet another environment variable EROS_BUILD_HOST and sensitize the
> includes to this variable.
>
> Where does the raw cpp officially live under FreeBSD?
Well, gcc -E does the job for all gccs...
Cheers,
Ben.
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