Subject: Re: Build for sparc fails
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Christian Smith <csmith@thewrongchristian.org.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/05/2006 13:11:24
Martin Husemann uttered:

> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:17:53AM -0700, Andreas Moschos wrote:
>> /bsd/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/bootblk/bootblk.fth
>> /bsd/src/obj/tooldir.SunOS-5.10-sparc/bin/nbfgen:
>> undefined token `sbsize'
>
> You are using the wrong awk - or put the other way around: there is something
> in the nbfgen awk script that is not portable to Solaris awk, which
> unfortunately nobody identified and fixed yet.


It's probably not fixable, Solaris /usr/bin/awk is the old V7 awk or close 
to. Any clues as to why they do this, answers on a postcard...

On Solaris, I always have /usr/xpg4/bin in my path before /usr/bin, as it 
contains a nawk compatible awk.


>
> Martin
>

Christian

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