https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53348
--- Comment #12 from Daniel Richard G. <skunk at iskunk dot org> ---
(In reply to David Edelsohn from comment #8)
> Patches are reviewed on gcc-patches mailinglist, not in Bugzilla
Sorry, I'm not properly set up for mailing lists at the moment...
> > * Escape "{" characters to not annoy older awk programs
>
> Prerequisites for GCC explicitly states that POSIX or SVR4 awk is required,
> so I don't think that this work-around would be accepted. For example, you
> can install GNU Awk.
POSIX/SVR4 is significant if the system awk is missing major features that
would make the script awkward/impossible to maintain. But a small syntax tweak
like this, so long as it doesn't hurt other awk implementations, is no big
deal. Especially for a script that is run by users who are only compiling the
code, as opposed to developers.
> This already has been changed.
>
[...]
>
> The fixincludes changes are the most plausible ones.
As an aside, is there documentation somewhere on how to generate a GCC dist
tarball from SVN? "make dist" doesn't do it, Web searches turn up nothing, and
I'd rather not have to wait a few days for the next snapshot...
