soft problem with awk

[Ryan Schmidt]

Known issue. Please see the ticket and test the workaround:

https://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13053#comment:10


On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:15, George Georgalis wrote:

> On some fairly controled installs, I'm getting
>
> configure: error: No awk program found
>
> this is resolved by running the same port command again.
> I'm using a zsh shell, and I wonder if rehash is needed
> at some point?
>
> first ports of 1.6.0 bootstrap:
> sudo port install openvpn2 p5-xml-xpath pstree
>
> completes without error, second port command:
>
> sudo port -v install subversion vim aspell-dict-en par
>
> fails per below, but when the second command is run
> again it completes without error. Obviously this is not
> very problematic but I thought I'd mention it.
>
> Please let me know if I can provide any more information!
>
> // George
>
>
> checking if you want to build programs such as tic... yes
> checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes
> checking for mawk... (cached) no
> checking for gawk... (cached) no
> checking for nawk... (cached) no
> checking for awk... (cached) no
> configure: error: No awk program found
>
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for ncursesw):  
> org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build  
> org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: apr-util sqlite3  
> gawk gettext ncurses ncursesw readline neon
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> film:MacPorts-1.6.0 geo$ sudo port -v install subversion vim aspell- 
> dict-en par