joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:19:10PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>> 0 x11-links>bmake install
>> ...
>>> awk: run time error: regular expression compile failed (Invalid content of \{\})
>>> \${LOWER_VENDOR}
>>>         FILENAME="-" FNR=1 NR=1
>> See PR #33410.
> 
> Idiotic GNU. No, we can't implement extended RE as almost anyone else
> does. POSIX was so nice to reduce the standard once more to the minimal
> consent...
> 
> About the patch, it is still not perfect...

No, but using [] to quote characters in awk is perfectly acceptable, and 
I think we should apply the patch.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>