Are you using gnu awk?  In that case, be sure it is compiled without
-O, otherwise it will core dump.

-- Ragge

> Howdy folks,
> 
> awk is dying on my vax using the June 23/04 snapshot, which makes
> building many of the ports in pkgsrc rather interesting ;-)
> 
> Doing variable substitutions on .SH files...
> [1]   Illegal instruction (core dumped) awk "{print \$1}... |
>       Done                    grep "\\.SH\$"
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> -T
> 
> 
> -- 
> A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!"
> "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me
> a sense of obligation."
>     - Stephen Crane
>