Possible issue with glibc compilation

[Pierluca Masala]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Karl McClendon <karl_strings at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One such issue is when building glibc.  It fails quickly with awk script errors.  After some hunting I learned that Ubuntu does not come with gawk, it comes with mawk, which is the reason for the error.  After installing gawk the build completed successfully.
>
> I'm not sure if you want to clutter lfs with every little host related error, but a small side page on how to set up certain popular distributions for building lfs would be nice.

I think that what you are asking for is already there...
Gawk is listed as one of the requirements in Preface -> Host System
Requirements.
If you had run the version-check.sh script as suggested in that page,
you would have discovered that you had to install gawk befor starting
with the build...