On 5/30/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reopen 307683 > tags 307683 -sarge > severity 307683 serious > thanks > > On i386, both the package in unstable and the package in unstable fail > if mawk is not installed. > > If you use mawk, you have to add a build dependency.
It seems to me that the proper place to fix this is (still) in r-base-dev, since it's what's choosing mawk or gawk (and I'd have to guess which mawk|gawk was being used on which architecture to fix it in this particular package - not to mention I suspect r-base-mapdata has the same problem). In short, r-base-dev needs to depend on the awk used when it was built -- the simplest solution I can see is to use mawk on all architectures (overriding configure's detection on amd64 and possibly other architectures) and having a fixed dependency on mawk. I'm still not convinced this is really RC, by the way... any non-seriously-broken system should have mawk installed. Chris -- Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
