port-sparc/44389: awk failure during m4 installation with pkgsrc

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>Number:         44389
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       awk failure during m4 installation with pkgsrc
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-sparc-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 14 17:45:00 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Mateusz Loskot
>Release:        5.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD qemu-netbsd-51-sparc 5.1 NetBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Nov  6 18:44:40 
UTC 2010  
builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RELEASE/sparc/201011061943Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
 sparc
>Description:
Installation of m4-1.4.15 package using pkgsrc fails with floating point 
exception. Here is the full command output:

qemu-netbsd-51-sparc# make install clean
qemu-netbsd-51-sparc# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc/devel/m4
qemu-netbsd-51-sparc# make install clean
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20080510
===> Checking for vulnerabilities in m4-1.4.15
===> Configuring for m4-1.4.15
=> Modifying GNU configure scripts to avoid --recheck
/usr/bin/awk: floating point exception 8
 input record number 18792, file configure
 source line number 1
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/devel/m4
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/devel/m4
qemu-netbsd-51-sparc#

Folks on #netbsd IRC channel suggested it may be related to SPARC architecture.

>How-To-Repeat:
On NetBSD5 5.1/SPARC issue:

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/m4
# make install clean
>Fix: