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

Good catch, and unfortunately something I'm responsible for.

It has been a long term project to review and try to update
build-svn-deps-win.pl to a working state. I have something half finished
but I never got around to complete it. That project started long before we
had CMake but I agree it superseeds this script.

Awk was required for something, can't remember what right now, but there
was something that made the sourceforge version unsuitable. Still, it seems
like a bad idea to distribute the source with our tarballs.

As for removing build-svn-deps-win.pl completely, I'm fine with that. It
clearly isn't working in the current state and if someone is using it, they
already have their own patched version.

/Daniel

Den tors 16 juli 2026 kl 15:53 skrev Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]>:

> 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 require AWK but a binary version is not so easy to
> find
> anymore. Thus include the sources here so we can build our own.
> ]]]
>
> 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 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 HTTP server, which is outdated.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 script are
> superseded by using CMake together with vcpkg (also described in INSTALL).
>
> 5. The 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 from source code and final Subversion 1.15.0
> tarball.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=1914373&view=revision
> [2]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=r1919413&view=revision
> [3]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=r1926319&view=revision
>
> --
> Ivan Zhakov
>