* On 2005-02-10 at 06:39 GMT, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> I don't know enough about the internals of tools.mk, but what was
> the reason that sketch didn't applied his own patch in December
> 2003?

Looks like I fixed it a different way, from lang/gawk/Makefile:

 --
 revision 1.21
 date: 2003/12/17 15:11:03;  author: sketch;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
 Remove the dependancy on GNU make, which should be unnecessary.  This
 package would previously fail to build if devel/gmake wasn't already
 installed due to the circular dependancy prevention logic in tools.mk
 --

and promptly forgot about the other patch.  Gavan's looks good,
however, and was prompted by a similar failure for GNU grep.

Cheers,

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