On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, David Laight wrote:
> I'm not sure whether the 'awk' available to the system build can be
> assumed to be able to run the current awk script.

It's easy to add awk to the tools.  I should probably do that anyway.

> OTOH I could write a sh script to do the same job (possibly for the AT&T
> /bin/sh on solaris if really necessary - which it isn't).

The build can assume that ${HOST_SH} is a POSIX shell.

--apb (Alan Barrett)