Re: [Bug default/25453] New: Require gawk at configure time

[Darshit Shah]

That's easy. I'll have a patch tonight for that

On 24/01/2020 13:44, jose.marchesi at oracle dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25453
>
>              Bug ID: 25453
>             Summary: Require gawk at configure time
>             Product: poke
>             Version: unspecified
>              Status: NEW
>            Severity: normal
>            Priority: P2
>           Component: default
>            Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
>            Reporter: jose.marchesi at oracle dot com
>                  CC: poke-devel at gnu dot org
>    Target Milestone: ---
>
> At this point RAS (poke's retarded assembler) requires GNU Awk, since
> it uses gensub extensively.  This leads to built-time errors like this
> when built with lesser awk implementations:
>
> srcdir=../../src ../../src/ras ../../src/pkl-gen.pks > pkl-gen.pkc
> awk: ../../src/ras: line 447: syntax error at or near ,
> awk: ../../src/ras: line 448: syntax error at or near ,
> awk: ../../src/ras: line 449: syntax error at or near ,
> awk: ../../src/ras: line 479: syntax error at or near :
> awk: ../../src/ras: line 482: syntax error at or near :
>
> We need to make sure gawk is installed and available at configure
> time, emitting a suitable error message to the user.