On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 14:25 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matt Burgess wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 10:46 -0700, Walter P. Little wrote: > > > >> Upgrading gawk to 4.0.1 was the ticket. Thanks for the tip. Should > >> the Host System Prerequisites page be updated to reflect this for > >> gawk? > > > > Thanks for testing that out and confirming it's a viable workaround. I > > think a note is prudent. To make the note complete, could you let us > > know where you found the gawk-4.0.1 package for Ubuntu-12.04 LTS please, > > and I'll commit the change before tomorrow's release. > > Matt, wouldn't it just be easier to change the requirement to gawk-4.0 > or later.
Yeah, I guess so. It's frustrating (and somewhat surprising) that a distro from just 18 months ago can't compile the latest Glibc or that whatever bug Glibc is tickling hasn't been reported/fixed yet. > The change there would only be one place in prologue/hostreqs.xml OK, I'll bump it now. Thanks, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
