[Toybox] awk seen in the wild

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Jul 14 14:35:10 PDT 2016


On 07/13/2016 05:38 PM, enh wrote:
> looks like i never sent my previous patch to the list, and looks like i
> lost it on disk too. (it's probably still *somewhere*, but at some point
> it's cheaper to stop looking and just do it again...)
> 
> attached is a rewrite that shows the basic idea, but misses the step of
> refactoring your portable implementation to look like the libcrypto one
> so we can remove the 10 lines of duplication. (the majority of the lines
> added to this patch is just the same help text duplicated over and over.)
> 
> this actually makes toybox faster than the version in ubuntu 14.04.

Grumble grumble.

Sigh.

Fidget.

Grrr...

[Sleeps on it; next afternoon...]

This is almost certainly the right thing to do. Lemme figure out where
the new edges of this can of worms are.

I know that no external library should ever be REQUIRED by the build.
And I still want the hermetic/selfhosting builds to work with defconfig
toybox, so may wind up adding builtin slow/simple implementations of
more stuff that libraries provide optimized versions of.

But yes, I should apply this. Lemme finish up my pending md5sum changes
first though. (I'm 2/3 of the way through adding -c support.)

Rob


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