SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Huntwork
<jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
>
>  'mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed
>
> (bad class -- [], [^] or [)
>  /[^
>  mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ]
>  mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: runaway regular expression /, "",'
>
>  Interesting. What is the host system you're using?

I'm guessing it's Ubuntu. You really need gawk, not mawk. This came up
on libc-alpha a few months ago, but Drepper wouldn't budge on making
it more portable.

--
Dan