[Toybox] Looking at nl

[Rob Landley]

On 05/26/2013 11:24:20 AM, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
> * idunham at lavabit.com <idunham at lavabit.com> [26.05.2013 18:10]:
> > Not to mention that awk is never really small or fast, and you need  
> a
> > pretty full-featured awk version to bootstrap Linux.
> 
> are there any specific awk-scripts which are needed to bootstrip the  
> thing?
> or "just" some random places? (by accident, like perl or bc)

To build toybox? No. (Somebody tried to rewrite menuconfig in awk once,  
but I didn't feel qualified to maintain the result.)

To build a self-bootstrapping system? Yes, autoconf and the gcc build  
are full of awk.

Rob