Errors in gawk-3.1.3 tests

[soneill]

I built gawk-3.1.3 on my Linux system with no problems in either compiling
or linking. I then ran "make check". All of the tests were passed, except
for the following:
        noparms.awk
        parseme.awk
        synerr1.awk

In each case, the resulting output had a "parse error" where the correct
output should have been "syntax error" For example, the _noparms output
looks like this:

gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
gawk: noparms.awk:1:                      ^ parse error
gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
gawk: noparms.awk:1:                       ^ parse error
EXIT CODE: 1

whereas, the noparms.ok shows this:

gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
gawk: noparms.awk:1:                      ^ syntax error
gawk: noparms.awk:1: function x(a, b, c , ,) {}
gawk: noparms.awk:1:                       ^ syntax error
EXIT CODE: 1

Can you give me some insight as to why this happens, and whether it can be
corrected? My version of the Linux kernel is 2.2.18, my version of libc is
2.3.1, and my compiler is gcc 2.95.4. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Steve O'Neill