Review request: 8006933: Need to use nawk on Solaris to avoid awk limitations

Tim Bell tim.bell at oracle.com
Thu Jan 31 21:54:26 UTC 2013


On 01/31/13 00:42, David Holmes wrote:
> You mean even though the corba Defs-utils.gmk defines NAWK as awk this 
> isn't a problem because it doesn't actually get used?

Correct.  It is set in corba/make/common/shared/Defs-utils.gmk but never 
used.  This is probably an artifact of copying Defs-utils.gmk from the 
jdk repo.

The only other place in corba using awk is in 
make/common/shared/Platform.gmk, and that section is BSD specific.

Tim




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