This patch is to document the fact that Cygwin's awk doesn't work with
MSVC. This is due to Cygwin making awk.exe a symlink to gawk.exe. The
Windows shell does not support symlinks, and so any Apache makefile
references to awk.exe will fail.
See http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8726
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Jerry Baker
Index: win_compiling.html
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listing Executable file paths. Add the path for awk.exe to this
list, and your system PATH environment variable, as needed.<br />
<br />
+ Also note that if you are using Cygwin (<a
href="http://www.cygwin.com/";
+ >http://www.cygwin.com/</a>) the awk utility is named gawk.exe and
+ that the file awk.exe is really a symlink to the gawk.exe file. The
+ Windows command shell does not recognize symlinks, and because of that
+ building InstallBin will fail. A workaround is to delete awk.exe from
+ the cygwin installation and rename gawk.exe to awk.exe.<br />
+ <br />
</li>
<li>[Optional] OpenSSL libraries (for mod_ssl and ab.exe with ssl
support)<br />
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