On 2011-12-17, at 17:31 , Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 12/17/2011 5:44 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: >> Attempts to build firefox8-8.0.1-2 on OS X 10.7 fail with: >> >> Generating /sw/src/fink.build/firefox8-8.0.1-2/mozilla-release/configure >> using autoconf >> cd /sw/src/fink.build/firefox8-8.0.1-2/mozilla-release; >> /sw/lib/autoconf2.13/bin/autoconf >> /sw/lib/autoconf2.13/bin/autoconf: line 153: gawk: command not found >> Generating >> /sw/src/fink.build/firefox8-8.0.1-2/mozilla-release/js/src/configure using >> autoconf >> cd /sw/src/fink.build/firefox8-8.0.1-2/mozilla-release/js/src; >> /sw/lib/autoconf2.13/bin/autoconf >> /sw/lib/autoconf2.13/bin/autoconf: line 153: gawk: command not found > > Simple answer: install fink's gawk package or rebuild autoconf2.13-legacy > w/out gawk installed and then try rebuilding firefox8. I prefer the latter. > > Longer answer: this is an issue with autoconf2.13-legacy rather than > firefox8. /sw/lib/autoconf2.13/bin/autoconf hardcodes the awk binary it > first finds from mawk, gawk, nawk, and awk (in that order) during > ./configure. Passing AWK=/usr/bin/awk to ./configure seems to force it to > use the system awk.
Thanks for the help. I rebuilt autoconf2.13-legacy, and then firefox8 built OK. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
