Glibc-2.7: awk should be gawk, not mawk
Petr Ovtchenkov
ptr at island.corbina.net
Mon Jan 14 21:45:58 MST 2008
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 01:59, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Petr Ovtchenkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to add my 2 cents to LFS.
> >
> > Note to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/glibc.html
> > (5.6. Glibc-2.7):
> >
> > Pay attention what is awk; if this is link to mawk (not gawk), then probably
> > you will have problem with glibc-2.7 building.
>
> Look at the preface to the book:
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/prologue/hostreqs.html
>
> It clearly says that gawk is required and provides a test for it.
Yes, I see. My problem was: Kubuntu has both gawk and mawk, and awk -> mawk.
So test should check as 'gawk' as 'awk'.
- ptr
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