Tue Dec  6 21:33:19 IST 2011
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As documented in the mail below, if you are using a system without any
version of awk installed, you will have bootstrapping problems (i.e., running
configure).  The solution is to install mawk or Brian Kernighan's awk
first.

Arnold Robbins
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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: bug-gawk@gnu.org
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:24:22 +0100
Message-ID: <87r514faw9.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
Subject: [bug-gawk] building gawk requires an awk?

Hello,

I was not able to build gawk 4.0.0 on a GNU/Hurd machine that didn't
have any awk, the ./configure script failed at the end:

config.status: creating Makefile
./config.status: line 1169: awk: command not found
config.status: error: could not create Makefile

Is this a known bootstrapping issue?  Same happened for 3.1.8.  I looked
in README but didn't find anything obvious.

Btw, building 'mawk' first and then gawk 4.0.0 works.  Running self
checks didn't work because there is no 'cmp' on the system either...

/Simon