On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 03:08:28PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
Hi Eric,
One of the OSX Homebrew guys, CC'd, has asked (casually) whether our dependency on GNU awk is very deeply ingrained, or if we could be convinced to allow usage of other make's instead (ie BSD).
Figured I'd ask you directly, as you'd probably best know whether it's an easy thing to address or not?
What problems are hit with BSD awk ? If it is a minor change then I'm not against it, but in general I think we should only focus on building with the GNU toolchain, since that is easily made available on any platform we support. Even if they already have similar tools (awk/make/etc), the GNU stuff can sit alongside native versions & typically offers far more functionality. Regards, Daniel