https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53348
--- Comment #14 from Daniel Richard G. <skunk at iskunk dot org> --- (In reply to David Edelsohn from comment #13) > The GCC build process has requirements, including SVR4/POSIX awk. GCC works > on a wide variety of systems, but needs to have a base set of requirements > and limit accommodation to prevent things from getting out of control. I understand that; my point is, escaping a couple of characters falls under the rubric of "limited accommodation." It would be a different story if I wanted GCC to build with an awk that, say, doesn't support variables. > Building and installing Gawk or Nawk or another implementation is not an > unreasonable burden. It's less reasonable than a two-line patch. (Any info on building a dist tarball? I don't have enough space on my AIX 4.3 system to take the entire SVN tree)
