Hi Serhei,

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 16:35 -0400, Serhei Makarov wrote:
> There's also the possibility of awk being powerful enough to make
> me want to use it. Do you know if awk is considered sufficiently
> standard for the testsuite to depend on it?

We already check for GNU awk in configure for maintainer mode:

  AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GAWK, gawk, yes, no) 
  if test "$HAVE_GAWK" = "no"; then 
    AC_MSG_ERROR([gawk needed in maintainer mode])
  fi

I don't think it would be a problem to do that for non-maintainer-mode
too.

Cheers,

Mark

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