From: Greg Troxel <gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:36:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Better comment explaining that GNU awk is really required.
X-Git-Tag: frr-2.0-rc1~2562
X-Git-Url: https://git.puffer.fish/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1bbaa8cfbd764b16d1ba892266ff641a60f67707;p=mirror%2Ffrr.git

Better comment explaining that GNU awk is really required.
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e6f49822dc..22077bf78a 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ AC_CANONICAL_TARGET()
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
-dnl we need gawk for memtypes.awk
+dnl GNU awk is required for lib/memtype.h made by memtypes.awk.
+dnl BSD awk complains: awk: gensub doesn't support backreferences (subst "\1")
 AC_CHECK_PROG([GAWK],[gawk],[gawk],[/bin/false])
 AC_ARG_VAR([GAWK],[GNU AWK])