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

Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Message-ID <CAPZho0-FDuoOVuFoH6x1AkxRDa3PYHXpMTcOYHakrNSnTjLr1g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 at 17:26, Daniel Sahlberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> Awk was required for something, can't remember what right now,
>
Awk dependency for Apache HTTP Server CMake-based build was removed in July
2024, while r1914373 was committed in December 2023. So the Apache HTTP
Server build did have a dependency on Awk at that time.


> but there was something that made the sourceforge version unsuitable.
> Still, it seems like a bad idea to distribute the source with our tarballs.
>
> Probably because of this:
[[[
... with msvcrt.dll and msvcp60.dll. If msvcrt.dll or msvcp60.dll is not in
your Windows/System folder, get them from Microsoft, or (msvcrt.dll only)
by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
]]]

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Ivan Zhakov
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