Hello Thomas Dickey, You've previously interacted with the debian bug report at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656026 and the issue there should have been fixed already.
While preparing an updated debian package with the latest snapshot release the packaging CI however noticed another (minor) issue with hardening. Full "blhc" log available at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mawk/-/jobs/530844 Basically it seems the issue is that $(LDFLAGS) is still missing from the Makefile.in line that builds makescan(.c). Given that makescan seems to be a tool only used during build and not actually shipped/installed, hardening it is probably very low priority. It might however be nice to have this fixed simply so that the blhc job will succeed making it easier to spot any potential future regressions in hardening. Would be great if you could consider looking into this. Thanks in advance. Regards, Andreas Henriksson