Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:37:30 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk Message-ID: <20000822153730.A2180@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008211907190.11800-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>; from takhus@takhus.mind.net on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:17:31PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008211907190.11800-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>
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Tony, On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:17:31PM -0700, Tony Fleisher wrote: > I have been running cvsup nightly to grab -current and -ports, > and noticed some strangeness with awk that seemed to start last > week sometime. > > When building /usr/ports/lang/guile, the build exited with an > awk 'internal error' and a log on the console that awk had > exited on signal 6. To test my theory that the problem was > indeed awk (rather than the guile port), I copied over a copy > of awk from a 4.1-R system. After doing so, the guile port was able to > build and install without any problems. Interesting. I bumped into the same problem on -current, but also had the problem if I tried using gawk from the ports (d'oh. I've just realised, our awk is GNU awk). You can get around it by installed nawk from lang/nawk first, and then doing "make AWK=nawk" you build it. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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