Re: State of tools/dev/awk and tools/build/build-svn-deps-win.pl

On 16. 7. 2026 15:52, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> I have just noticed that source tree and tarball contains awk source 
> code. It was added in r1914373 [1]
> [[[
> In tools/dev: Copy awk from 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/win32-msi/trunk/awk
>
> build-svn-deps-win.pl <http://build-svn-deps-win.pl> require AWK but a 
> binary version is not so easy to find
> anymore. Thus include the sources here so we can build our own.
> ]]]


Really ... https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm


> However:
>
> 1. Apache HTTP Server no longer requires AWK for CMake-based build 
> since r1919413. The change was backported to Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x 
> in r1926319 [3].
>
> 2. tools/dev/awk is included in tarball, but NOTICE doesn't contains 
> Copyright information for awk source code.
>
> 3. The build-svn-deps-win.pl <http://build-svn-deps-win.pl> script 
> uses NMake-based build for Apache HTTP server, which is outdated.
>
> 4. I would say that most parts of the build-svn-deps-win.pl 
> <http://build-svn-deps-win.pl> script are superseded by using CMake 
> together with vcpkg (also described in INSTALL).
>
> 5. The build-svn-deps-win.pl <http://build-svn-deps-win.pl> script 
> doesn't validate checksums when fetching remote data.
>
> Given all the above I suggest we remove tools/dev/awk and 
> tools/dev/build-svn-deps-win.pl <http://build-svn-deps-win.pl> from 
> source code and final Subversion 1.15.0 tarball.
>
> Thoughts?


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