------- Comment #11 from pluto at agmk dot net 2006-08-07 08:58 ------- i should note that autoconf-2.59 works fine.
$ info autoconf (...) -- Macro: AC_PROG_AWK Check for `awk', `mawk', `gawk', and `nawk', in that order, and set output variable `AWK' to the first one that is found. It tries `awk' first because that is reported to be the implementation that our system usually runs. (...) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28511