From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 21:47:07 -0400 Message-ID: From: Hugo Rivera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Gawk in 9front-ports Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e6489b8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Why do you want gawk on plan9? I use awk a lot (on plan9 and elsewhere) and I wonder what reasons do you have to use gawk over plan9's awk. 2015-07-06 22:37 GMT-04:00 Jens Staal : > There was a recent discussion about that it would be nice to have gawk on > Plan9. > > The latest upstream version of gawk can now be built via 9front-ports. I > think/hope I built/ported it correctly, but it would be nice with > critique/feedback/testing. > > I noticed in the Arch linux package that gawk comes with a couple of dynamic > libraries and a header. Are those also interesting to include in the Plan9 > package (then as static libraries ofcourse)? -- Hugo