On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:55:39PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 21:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:15:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > At 4:40 PM -0400 9/7/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:12:56PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > > It seems reasonable to me to add a strftime() (and maybe a few other > > > >> features) to our base-system awk. But look at what happens if we > > > >> install gawk: > > > >> > > > >> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 115732 May 29 21:01 /usr/bin/awk* > > > >> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1201108 Sep 7 15:39 /usr/local/bin/gawk* > > > > > > > >xor# ls -l `which gawk` > > > >-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 225232 Sep 7 16:40 /usr/local/bin/gawk > > > >xor# ls -l `which awk` > > > >-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 123260 May 16 13:58 /usr/bin/awk > > > > > > Huh. I wonder why there's such a difference. All I did was > > > > > > portinstall -N gawk > > > > > > on my FreeBSD 5.x-ish machine (I did it there just because I had a > > > root-session already open on that machine). I've never installed > > > gawk before. Uname: > > > > Most of the bloat appears to be from gettext. > > Which is configurable from reading the port Makefile, so Julian can do: > > cd /usr/ports/lang/gawk > make WITHOUT_NLS=yes package > > and have a small gawk package to install on his boxes. :) Yep. In fact unless you're actually using making use of gettext (i.e. running with non-default locale) this is a good option to set in your make.conf, to avoid lots of similar useless bloat and unnecessary dependencies. Kris
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