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

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> the docker container images (which are typically
> used for CI) or the cloud images (which are typically used in Kubernetes
> environments).  I'm not sure there is a trend that container images for
> OS's are growing, I think most distributions are actively trying to make
> them as small as possible

Yes, definitely. When you look at cloud / docker images, there is no
concept of "standard tools" any more.

The first occurrence of this trend was the missing 'join' program on Alpine
Linux [1]. Now 'cmp' on RHEL 9 and 'awk' on Fedora 42... In hindsight, for
the 'join' problem, it would have been better if we had merely documented
as a prerequisite; this would have saved us the the time implementing
workarounds.

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-04/msg00041.html