SVN-20080403 : 5.6.1. Installation of Glibc failure

[Dennis Clarke]

> 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.

Debian etch actually.

I have received guidance from someone with initials JH and am moving
forwards by starting over in the jh branch.

Dennis