Hi Ivan,
Thanks for the advice. I have solved the problem, gen-sorted.awk had to be
patched.
thanks,
- AG
----- Original Message ----
From: Ivan Shmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ashish Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; bug-hurd@gnu.org
Sent: Friday, 7 December, 2007 3:18:40 PM
Subject: Re: cross-gnu : mawk syntax error
>>>>> "AG" == Ashish Gokhale <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes:
[Speaking totally out of my mind.]
AG> I am trying to compile the Hurd system for some time now & seem to
AG> run into problems. I am receiving syntax error for mawk as follows:
[...]
It may be due to use of some GNU Awk extension which is not
supported by Mawk.
AG> if I uninstall mawk & configure /usr/bin/awk to point to gawk,
I believe, you haven't to. Could you try running `configure'
like this (inside of the build directory):
$ AWK=gawk /the/source/configure [... anything you've specified before...]
Usually, I keep the source trees within builds/src/, and the
build trees within builds/, so I use:
$ cd build/
$ tar -C src/ -zxf /the/package-0.1.23.tar.gz
$ mkdir package-0.1.23-build
$ cd package-0.1.23-build
$ ../src/package-0.1.23/configure [... arguments...]
$ nohup time make &
(Although not every package may be built this way, it's, IIRC,
the preferred way, to build the GNU Hurd.)
AG> I get mawk comman not found error. How to proceed?
Check if there're any dangling references to `mawk' in either
the source or build tree, e. g. (assuming the source tree is
below source/ and the build one is below build/):
$ grep -rlF mawk source/ build/
Check if the files containing the references could be remade and
if they could, remake them. Most likely you've to re-run
`configure' to make it find the Awk program you're want to
specify.
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