Re: One True Awk upgrade

On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 11:06 AM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb_at_hardenedbsd.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 10:55:41AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I'm upgrading the in-tree version of one-true-awk. Normally, this isn't a
> > problem, but there's a number of small differences I'm still trying
> > to figure out due to our... contorted history. Some of the revisions we
> had
> > in the vendor branch of our repo were accepted as-is, some completely,
> and
> > some not yet, We've also added bug fixes we've found, as well as fixes
> from
> > other BSDs, which has also caused at least one unexplained difference.
> >
> > I should have it sorted out in the next day or so, but wanted to give a
> > heads up. I doubt anybody would notice, but each of the differences is
> > going to take a little time to sort out, chase back to the failing case,
> > work out with upstream if there's a bug or not, etc. There's also a small
> > window between r348513 and r348515 where the tree fails to build (due to
> > svn's commit subtree vs git's commit while tree differences).
> >
> > Also, I've not tagged this as such, but my plans are to MFC to 12 next
> > week, and to 11 after 11.3R goes out the door.
>
> Thanks for maintaining one-true-awk in the tree! I was planning on
> publishing a new binary update of 13-CURRENT for HardenedBSD users.
> Should I hold off until the dust settles?
>

The test suite shows no differences, so any bug differences between FreeBSD
and upstream one-true-awk are likely obscure.

Warner