Subject: Bug#3839: autoconf wants `nawk'

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 96 22:55 BST

Package: autoconf
Version: 2.10-3

-chiark:dpkg-1.2.13> make autoconf
autoheader
configure.in:114: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
autoconf
configure.in:114: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:115: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:116: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
/usr/bin/autoconf: nawk: command not found
-chiark:dpkg-1.2.13> dpkg -l '*awk*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  gawk            2.15.6-1       GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l
in  mawk            <none>         (no description available)
-chiark:dpkg-1.2.13> 

I'll see if installing mawk helps, and if not I'll make a symlink.

Either autoconf should be changed or a dependency added or both.

Ian.

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From: [email-masked] (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 19 Jul 1996 20:50:21 -0400

>> ii  gawk 2.15.6-1       GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l

Where's *that* from? The current version I've got is:

ii  gawk 3.0.0-2        GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l

I was told that gawk and mawk both provide nawk (via
update-alternatives) and to depend on that because "classic" awk
wasn't good enough (and always getting gawk was wrong.)

Might update-alternatives have failed, or something? I get the idea
that *future* gawk/mawk will just provide a virtual package of "awk"
and I can count on that, but it isn't there yet.

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From: [email-masked] (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 19 Jul 1996 20:50:38 -0400

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From: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:39:51 -0400 (EDT)

'Ian Jackson wrote:'
>Version: 2.10-3
[...]
>||/ Name            Version        Description

Either installing the latest version of gawk or installing mawk with
solve the problem.  Older versions of gawk didn't create a link to
nawk.

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