* Sergey Poznyakoff wrote on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:58:15AM CEST: > > FWIW the awk script is not portable to ancient awk, such as found on > > Solaris. > > Hmm, but why? I didn't use any GNU awk extensions, did I?
Not as far as I can see. Solaris /bin/awk doesn't have the match and sub functions, and has several other limitations over POSIX awk. The Autoconf manual documents some of these limitations <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Usual-Tools.html>, and the gawk manual has a pretty informative section about awks too <http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Language-History.html>. On Solaris, you should be able to use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk. Cheers, Ralf
