Re: problems with node Utilities in Makefiles

[Karl Berry]

    1) we should add "awk" to the list of alowed utils, as current CVS

My recollection is that I am awaiting a patch from Ralf on this issue
and a few others.  Ralf?  I'm not sure if your reply was also saying
that.  I know you sent some patches, but I think they've all been
integrated by now?

    4) Is it still adequate to say about "mkdir -p" that

It makes no difference operationally, as Ralf said, but I can change
"most" to "some" for clarity.  I suppose that is more accurate these
days.

As for dist-bzip2, I'm not clear about your concern.  The coding
standards can't possibly try to specify everything that's permitted or
supported, just set a minimum.

Best,
Karl