[BusyBox] awk problem with freeswan
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Mon Jul 5 05:11:38 UTC 2004
On Saturday 03 July 2004 10:47, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Busybox awk doesn't seem to like freeswan's setup scripts. I've
> isolated one problem to this testcase. It seems that busybox gets upset
> by the "break", though both gawk and mawk are happy with it.
>
> $ cat t.awk
> BEGIN {
> for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
> if (0) {
> break
> }
> }
> }
> $ ./busybox awk -f t.awk
> awk: t.awk:5: Unexpected token
> $ mawk -f t.awk
> $ gawk -f t.awk
> $
>
> p.
Busybox awk is horked eight ways from sunday. Somebody needs to give it the
kind of major cleanup I did to sed last year, but it's not going to be me
anytime soon. (I've got too many other to-do items in busybox right now, and
I'd not looking forward to learning awk anyway...)
Right now I'm using gawk in my little "busybox as part of a development
environment" distro. (Which I'm almost ready to use on a server, except that
it doesn't have an ftp client, an ssh client, a shutdown command...) Several
./configure and build scripts rely fairly heavily on awk, and they all go
"boing" with the busybox version...
Rob
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