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#40 awk instead of gawk

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nobody
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2010-10-13
2010-10-13
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As with probably many other systems I don't have gawk installed by default. So I propose to add a check similar to the following patch. It might be worth to include other variants like nawk - assuming that there are no special features needed. At least here it seemed to work fine.

Index: src/tools/affixcompress

--- src/tools/affixcompress (Revision 20487)
+++ src/tools/affixcompress (Arbeitskopie)
LC_ALL=C sort word_list >sorted_word_list
affixcompress sorted_word_list [max_affix_rules]
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@

# profiling
#AWK="pgawk --profile"
-AWK="gawk"
+if which gawk; then
+ AWK="gawk"
+else
+ AWK=awk
+fi

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