thank you for your reply.
i would be happy to help and write what is required.
i am very proficient with awk - but i do not know
exactly what the perl scripts do - i don't know
perl. if you could specify the I/O requirements
of the scripts, and what files they operate upon,
i would be happy to do the work.
Thank you,
Chad
> > I wish you wouldn't require "perl" to compile
> > squid. Personally, I don't like perl, and I
> > don't have it on my machines, and I think
> > it would be best to allow people to compile
> > squid without it. I am sure it's doable.
> > Why not just use awk/sh or something?
>
> patches eleminating the build dependency on perl is welcome.
>
> we already use awk for other purposes (src/cf_gen_defines) so rewriting
> the two build time perl scripts into awk would be the natural choice..
>
> src/mk-globals.pl
> src/mk-string-arrays.pl
>
> but please keep in mind that awk is perhaps even less standard than perl,
> with slightly different awk dialects on different OS:es.. (awk/nawk/gawk
> and more)..
>
> Regards
> Henrik
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