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other binaries & shared libraries

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
awk, rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with the Arch Linux gawk package listing in the issue and inspect this project's packaging and drop-in compatibility entry points. Define the scope for handling gawk's additional binaries and shared libraries before implementation; done requires an agreed compatibility approach and validation that dependent packages can use the packaged project.

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Description

I guess it is very difficult to support them. But https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gawk/ contains

usr/bin/awk (symlink)
usr/bin/gawk-5.4.0 (same binary)
usr/bin/gawkbug (not useful)
usr/include/gawkapi.h
usr/lib/awk/grcat
usr/lib/awk/pwcat
usr/lib/gawk/filefuncs.so
usr/lib/gawk/fnmatch.so
usr/lib/gawk/fork.so
usr/lib/gawk/inplace.so
usr/lib/gawk/intdiv.so
usr/lib/gawk/ordchr.so
usr/lib/gawk/readdir.so
usr/lib/gawk/readfile.so
usr/lib/gawk/revoutput.so
usr/lib/gawk/revtwoway.so
usr/lib/gawk/rwarray.so
usr/lib/gawk/time.so

It is impossible to package this project as drop-in if other pkgs depend on such shared libs.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
27
Forks
7
Avg merge
4h 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
11

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