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

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025, at 8:39 AM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "PH" == Perry Hutchison <[email protected]> writes:
>
> PH> James Cloos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> should the scripts also check for 'busybox awk' in $PATH?
>
> PH> Do they check for other commands that way?
>
> PH> It should not be necessary, unless we want to allow for a
> PH> busybox that is installed strangely.
>
> it is not strange to install busybox w/ just a single link in bin, ie
> w/o sym- or hard-links for each of the commands.

this _only_ works because busybox's implementation of the shell language
knows all the commands that are implemented by busybox.  if you want to
use busybox together with a different shell then you do have to create
all the symlinks.

zw