455654 – app-text/txt2man: awk dependency

Bug 455654 - app-text/txt2man: awk dependency

Summary: app-text/txt2man: awk dependency

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Tim Harder

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Blocks:	418473
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Reported:	2013-02-05 18:34 UTC by Christoph Junghans (RETIRED)
Modified:	2013-02-05 20:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 18:34:36 UTC

Can you please have a look if virtual/awk is sufficient or if gawk is needed.

Comment 1 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 20:17:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Can you please have a look if virtual/awk is sufficient or if gawk is needed.

You could have checked this on your own. Quoting the comment from txt2man line 171 verbatim, "gawk is needed because use of non standard regexp."

If you want to patch it to work with other awk implementations please push the patch upstream.