OK, so the problem is an AWK portability issue. Since these guys are
maintainer tools, I won't fight to have them perfect. But if you
could try to see what makes it unhappy, maybe there is a way out.
The problem is in finalize.awk. To create it, just run
echo AC_INTI >configure.in
autoconf -d
and look for /tmp/ac*/finalize.awk
Here is the top of it. It complains about line 7, and frankly, I
don't understand the error message.
1 # Load the list of tokens which escape the forbidden patterns.
2 BEGIN {
3 # Be sure the read GAWK documentation to understand the parens
4 # around `tmp "/forbidden.rx"'.
5 while ((getline pattern < (tmp "/forbidden.rx")) > 0)
6 forbidden = (forbidden ? forbidden "|" : "") pattern
7 close (tmp "/forbidden.rx")
8 if (verbose)
9 errprint("autoconf: forbidden: " forbidden)
10
11 while ((getline pattern < (tmp "/allowed.rx")) > 0)
12 allowed = (allowed ? allowed "|" : "") pattern
13 close (tmp "/allowed.rx")
14 if (verbose)
15 errprint("autoconf: allowed: " allowed)
16 }
| nawk: Tempcell list is curdled
| nawk: Source line number 7
The stock nawk on Debian unstable works fine with this, and there is
not `curdled' in the man page. Maybe the author can help us?
