The following reply was made to PR pkg/33410; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33410: pkgsrc problem with posix awk
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 10:13:31 +0200

 On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:30:05PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
 >  And I prefer to do things right. Other implementations of awk may just 
 >  continue without warning (the OpenGroup's web site is badly formatted, 
 >  but I think it states undefined behavior for invalid programs), and can 
 >  you tell what they do?
 
 The behaviour of this programs is actually quite well defined. the
 backslash escaping is not *necessary* in this situations, but it doesn't
 really hurt either.
 
 >  In particular the second warning should alert you. Although the author 
 >  probably meant to escape the dot, it is not treated as such.
 
 No, it meant that it is not needed in this context.
 
 Joerg