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Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #1342] fix for requiring gawk
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From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:41:01 -0500
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>>>>> "DL" == Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

DL> "Tom Yu via RT" <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

>> I think the thing to do would be to explicitly override the setting of
>> the AWK variable on the make command line if you need to actually use
>> the top-level targets that need it, e.g. kerbsrc.zip.

DL> Indeed; I don't see why the normal case should lose.  Failure to build
DL> on anything without gawk installed as such is rather unfortunate.

Just to be clear: you _were_ attempting to build kerbsrc.zip, not
actually attempting to build the Unix binaries, right?

---Tom