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Re: texinfo-6.7.90 pretest on AIX


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: texinfo-6.7.90 pretest on AIX
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:01:20 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 09:19:28PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 04:57:45PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Therefore I think it will be better to prefer 'gawk' to 'awk' in the 
> > configure
> > test. That is, change
> >   AC_CHECK_PROGS([TI_AWK], [awk mawk gawk], [])
> > to
> >   AC_CHECK_PROGS([TI_AWK], [gawk awk mawk], [])
> > 
> > Note: The Autoconf macro AC_PROG_AWK also prefers 'gawk' to all other awk
> > implementations.
> 
> I'll have a look to see if the issue can be fixed any other way, but the
> reason I changed it away from AC_PROG_AWK was I was irritated when I ran
> texi2dvi at the time taken for texindex to run in between runs of TeX.
> The default awk program on my system (which I think is mawk) is much
> faster so the run time for texindex is not as noticeable.

I've been able to test the fix on AIX 7.1 now and it appears to work fine
with /usr/bin/awk there.





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