| Summary: | sys-apps/gawk: lack of --enable-switch for econf | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Tefnet developers <developers> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | cg |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
i have no problem with this ... az ? no, should cause no compatibility issues the docs mention that enable-switch will be on by default with 3.2+ releases, so we can just enable it in our gawk for now :) At least it breaks openswan. See Bug #105133 |
gawk has optional support for switch() {} statement. One can enable it using ./configure --enable-switch. I don't think it does any compatibility breakage, so it can be added to the ebuild, improving usability. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: