[pacman-dev] [PATCH 4/3] makepkg: fix a GNU-ism in awk usage

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Apr 2 16:22:18 EDT 2011


On 03/04/11 04:13, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Rémy Oudompheng
> <remyoudompheng at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> A non-GNU version of awk may not support the (|...) syntax for
>> an optional group and require '()' to match an empty string.
>> The (...)? syntax is more appropriate for this usage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rémy Oudompheng<remy at archlinux.org>
>> ---
>> Problem arises when trying to use makepkg with FreeBSD's awk.
> I'll let Allan take a look at this and sign off, eval and awk scare me
> too much. :)
>

Signoff.

Allan



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