From: Jarle Greipsland <jarle@uninett.no>
Subject: Re: buggy awk? 
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:21:37 +0200 (CEST)

> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> > there is a PR about this... i believe building awk with -O0 works.
> 
> Unfortunately not.  Neither gawk nor the NetBSD awk function
> correctly, even when built with -O0 flags.

This is a bug of toolchain.
Apply this patch to src/usr.bin/awk/Makefile, build and install awk.
This will help you *at least* compiling NetBSD source tree.

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /export/NetBSD/NetBSD-cvs/main/basesrc/usr.bin/awk/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 Makefile
--- Makefile	2001/01/23 22:24:20	1.2
+++ Makefile	2001/10/18 15:18:19
@@ -10,4 +10,8 @@
 DPADD+=	${LIBM}
 YHEADER=	yes
 
+.if (${MACHINE_ARCH} == "sparc64")
+CFLAGS+=        -msoft-quad-float
+.endif
+
 .include <bsd.prog.mk>