William Harrington wrote:
> I just went through this step using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and didn't have
> this issue. I've seen some strange things happen in VM's. I'm using
> vmware for the build, too.
>
> I think it is a bit hasty of the dev team to raise the gawk version in
> host system requirements when one person comments that they have a
> problem. It isn't cause gawk is too old. The problem isn't with gawk.
> There is something else in the user's build causing this. I cannot
> replicate it what soever. There are still lots of distros out there
> using gawk < 4.0. Once again, I cannot replicate the problem with
> multiple distros that use gawk 3.1.8 or earlier and in a vm.
You're probably right, but I don't think updating the version hurts
anything either. At most, there will be a couple of questions on -support.
-- Bruce
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