2009-12-14 21:34:21

by Luca Tettamanti

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Subject: [PATCH] Document awk requirements

Hello,
current -git kernel fails to build with this error message:

GEN arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.

mawk is installed; it appears that gawk is required, so:
---
Gnu awk is required for generating arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <[email protected]>
---

Documentation/Changes | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index 6d0f1ef..53fd218 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version
o udev 081 # udevinfo -V
o grub 0.93 # grub --version
o mcelog 0.6
+o Gnu awk 3.1.5 # awk --version

Kernel compilation
==================


2009-12-14 22:00:33

by Masami Hiramatsu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document awk requirements

Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hello,
> current -git kernel fails to build with this error message:
>
> GEN arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
> Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class.
>
> mawk is installed; it appears that gawk is required, so:
> ---
> Gnu awk is required for generating arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <[email protected]>
> ---

Thank you for adding that :-)

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>


>
> Documentation/Changes | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
> index 6d0f1ef..53fd218 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Changes
> +++ b/Documentation/Changes
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version
> o udev 081 # udevinfo -V
> o grub 0.93 # grub --version
> o mcelog 0.6
> +o Gnu awk 3.1.5 # awk --version
>
> Kernel compilation
> ==================

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: [email protected]