Re: toolchain/37938: Solaris 10 / SPARC hosted build of NetBSD fails in MAKEDEV.awk

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/37938; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: toolchain/37938: Solaris 10 / SPARC hosted build of NetBSD
        fails in MAKEDEV.awk
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:42:18 +0200

 On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, palle%lyckegaard.dk@localhost wrote:
 > The attached patch to src/etc/MAKEDEV.awk removes an issue with building 
 > NetBSD on a Solaris 10 / SPARC hosted system (with PATH as described in 
 > src/tools/compat/README)
 
 What's the exact error message?
 
 > 84d83
 > < 
 > 96c95
 > <    if ( length(CONSOLE_CMAJOR) == 0) {
 > ---
 > >    if (CONSOLE_CMAJOR == "") {
 
 (In future, please submit patches in unidiff format, as produced by
 "cvs diff -u".)
 
 MAKEDEV.awk already contains the line 'if (CONSOLE_CMAJOR == "") {'.
 If you have a copy with 'if ( length(CONSOLE_CMAJOR) == 0) {' then
 I don't know where you obtained it.
 
 As far as I can tell from reading
 <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html>,
 both variants should be acceptable.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)