Re: Build failures on OpenIndiana 151a

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:15:20 +0000
"Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" <johann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OpenIndiana comes with gawk 3.1.5.  After compiling and installing
> 4.0.0 and using that it works.  Trying to ./configure with
> AWK=/usr/bin/awk fails in different ways.

I'll note this:

Index: MACHINES
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/MACHINES,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -u -r1.9 MACHINES
--- MACHINES	6 Aug 2010 15:27:09 -0000	1.9
+++ MACHINES	16 Oct 2011 16:52:13 -0000
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ NetBSD: NetBSD 1.x
 OpenBSD: OpenBSD 2.x, 3.x
 	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
 
+OpenIndiana: OpenIndiana 151a
+	Problems have been reported with awk when used to generate
+	prototype files for building zsh.  Upgrading to gawk (GNU awk)
+	version 4.0.0 fixes this.	
+
 SIEMENS: Reliant UNIX
 	[Out of date.]
 

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