Gavin Smith wrote: > It is not supposed to only run on GNU awk. In fact, it should prefer > awk to gawk. I prefer not to run texindex with gawk because mawk is > much faster.
OK. > Do you have any idea why awk is saying there is a syntax error? > > awk: syntax error near line 1 > awk: bailing out near line 1 It boils down to this invocation: $ awk -v Invocation_name=./texindex -f ../../texindex/texindex.awk -- -version awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line 1 This awk does not support the '-v' option: $ awk awk: Usage: awk [-Fc] [-f source | 'cmds'] [files] $ awk -f ../../texindex/texindex.awk -- -version awk: syntax error near line 39 awk: bailing out near line 39 Apparently it does not understand the 'function' keyword. nawk (= /usr/xpg4/bin/awk [2]) and gawk (preinstalled as /usr/bin/gawk [3]) are alternatives which work. Therefore, on this platform, instead of picking the 'awk' that is found in $PATH, it is a better strategy to look for 'nawk' or 'gawk' in $PATH. Bruno [1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/816-5165/awk-1.html [2] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37839/awk-1.html [3] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37839/awk-1g.html
