Re: fedora 42 doesn't have awk: how to deal with autoconf subst?

Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for autoconf <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:46:27 +0200

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Bruno Haible via Bug reports for autoconf <[email protected]> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> 0) Modify autoconf to continue to work in this situation without awk,
>>     replacing it with more POSIX shell or something else?
>
> Many years ago, Autoconf produced configure scripts that used 'sed'
> for the job of replacing the various @FOO@ occurrences in *.in files.
> When they switched to 'awk', it was for speed reasons, IIRC.

I understand the desire to drop all the old code, but it would be nice
to have something like it as a fall-back in case awk isn't available.

> I don't think it's worth making a distinction here between Autoconf and
> "Autoconf + Automake", since most packages that use Autoconf also use
> Automake.

I would appreciate distinguishing this, it helps to make it more clear
where dependencies are coming from.  OpenSSH is using autoconf but not
automake, IIRC, and I think there are more examples.

/Simon

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