Re: CONFIG_KPROBES=y build requires gawk

Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-17T03:41:38Z

Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:56:17PM -0800, Andrew Isaacson wrote:
>> With CONFIG_KPROBES=y on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 default install, I get the
>> following:
>>
>> Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
>> Please try to use gawk.
>
> Aside of the incorrect suggestion (you need not just gawk, you need that
> thing installed as awk), the use of GNUisms in there is actually pointless
> since encoding is bloody fixed.

Hmm, maybe "POSIX awk" will be a better suggestion, isn't it?

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

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