From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 7:41:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9762837B43E for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7MEbVu25315; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:37:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:37:30 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Tony Fleisher Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk Message-ID: <20000822153730.A2180@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from takhus@takhus.mind.net on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:17:31PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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