Subject: MAKEDEV.awk bug with debian-unstable
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Tim Sellar <tim.sellar@dsvr.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 04/21/2004 18:27:12
I'm cross-building current on debian-unstable and have been caught out
by a problem with awk. Unless the following change is applied an
unusable MAKEDEV is produced, breaking installation. Is this unique to
debian or a problem with gawk perhaps? Anyone else seeing this?

Index: MAKEDEV.awk
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/etc/MAKEDEV.awk,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -r1.14 MAKEDEV.awk
284c284
<               parsed = parsed substr(line, 0, RSTART - 1) id
---
>               parsed = parsed substr(line, 0, RSTART) id
320c320
<               parsed = parsed substr(deventry, 0, RSTART - 1) dev
---
>               parsed = parsed substr(deventry, 0, RSTART) dev