[MITgcm-devel] genmake2 fails with netcdf on SUN

[Alistair Adcroft]

sed 'y/abc.../ABC.../'


chris hill wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
>  I think the portable way to do this is
> 
>  echo ALLOW_something | tr 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' 
> 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
> 
> Chris
> Martin Losch wrote:
> 
>> More awk troubles:
>> SunOS's awk (oawk) doesn't like the "toupper" command:
>>
>>> rays1::MITgcm> echo ALLOW_something | awk '{print toupper($0)}'
>>> ALLOW_something
>>> rays1::MITgcm> echo ALLOW_something | nawk '{print toupper($0)}'
>>> ALLOW_SOMETHING
>>> rays1::MITgcm> echo ALLOW_something | gawk '{print toupper($0)}'
>>> ALLOW_SOMETHING
>>
>>
>> This causes serious problems because all -DALLOW_PKG become 
>> -DALLOW_pkg etc. My "Unix is a Nutshell" from 1994 even says that 
>> "toupper" is only available in gawk, but apparently it works also in 
>> nawk.
>>
>> After (quick-)fixing this problem (replaced $AWK with gawk in the 
>> instances toupper appears in genmake2), everythings compiles and runs 
>> with /usr/bin/awk on SunOS, Solaris 5.9.
>>
>> Again, do we care about this? Or is it better to stick with gawk/nawk 
>> and have these specified in all sunos_sun4u_* build options files?
>>
>> Martin
>>
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