William Immendorf wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jim Michmerhuizen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm having trouble building the first-pass glibc-2.10.1 according to the >> instructions in section 5.7.1 of the 6.5 LFS book. > <snip> >> [3] So, in this context, why on earth would I get errors from an >> as-distributed awk script? > Because you are using Mawk. Run: > > sudo apt-get install gawk > > to be set. > Doh! Many thanks -- not only that the make is proceeding without error as I write this, but ESPECIALLY for your generating the fastest query- response I've ever encountered.
So: config can specify whatever 'awk'-sibling it finds available, but it can't be responsible for whether, in detail, that sibling is compatible with what's in the awk scripts. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
