Re: Building pkgsrc fails by strange awk behavior?

[John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost>]

> I found the return value of system(cmd) was 4611686018427387904 (=2^62)!
> So this is the minimum code to reproduce the problem:
>
> alpha# uname -srm
> NetBSD 10.0_RC1 alpha
> alpha# test foo ; echo $?
> 0
> alpha# awk 'BEGIN { print(system("test foo")); }'
> 4611686018427387904
> alpha#

On my AlphaServer DS25:

athena: {1} awk 'BEGIN { print(system("test foo")); }'
0

Perhaps a qemu problem?

John