[MITgcm-devel] genmake2 fails with netcdf on SUN

[chris hill]

Hi Ed,

  Can't we just use

  extn=`echo $sf | $AWK -F. '{print $NF}'`

  since it is the more portable form?

Thanks,

Chris
Martin Losch wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> I am sorry that this Sun business is taking so much of your time.
> pkg/mnc/Makefile works for me now. Thanks.
> With the recent changes, have your tried to generate a Makefile with the 
> following awk: /usr/bin/awk? I find that /usr/bin/awk swallows this line 
> (and does the right thing)
>                 extn=`echo $sf | $AWK -F. '{print $NF}'`
> but not this one
> #               extn=`echo $sf | $AWK 'BEGIN {FS="."}; {print $NF}'`
> But as I said before, this problem is not the only problem with awk. 
> Should we really spend time on sorting this out, given that the line 
> AWK=gawk or AWK=nawk in the build options file takes care of everything? 
> (There are also serios problems with xmakedepend if AWK=awk!!!)
> 
> As far as I know awk is really oawk (o=old) and nawk (new awk) is or 
> should be the standard (source: Unix in a Nutshell, 1994).
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Ed Hill wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 10:32 -0500, Alistair Adcroft wrote:
>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> Why don't you either
>>>   1) Replace the $< and $@ macros
>>> or
>>>   2) Change the case of one of the file names, if there are plans to
>>> have many more files
>>>
>>> I'm sure Ed will be happy for you to do either because it will lead to
>>> him getting less abuse from you.  :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> OK, I did the above.  And I spent part of the day doing builds on
>> slough.mit.edu -- more changes to come...
>>
>> Ed
>>
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