[MPlayer-cvslog] r23335 - in trunk: configure vidix/Makefile

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 10:10:09 +0200
> Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 23:48:56 +0200 (CEST)
> > diego <subversion at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Remove awk test.  awk is a basic Unix tool, any implementation is sufficient.
> > 
> > Have you tested this on solaris or any other unix with
> > stone age awk? If not, compilation will break on these
> > platforms. See the discussion on -dev-eng a few years
> > back when this check was added.
> 
> Yes, it fails on solaris 9:
> 
> ---
> $ awk -f pci_db2c.awk pci.db
> awk: syntax error near line 67
> awk: illegal statement near line 67
> awk: syntax error near line 76
> awk: illegal statement near line 76
> awk: syntax error near line 128
> awk: bailing out near line 128
> ---

What version of awk is this?  What exactly is triggering the syntax
error?

> Please revert.

I'd much rather fix the awk script to be more portable.  The "test" we
had in configure was useless anyway.  It probably chose GNU awk before
Solaris awk on your system.

Also, I'm rather sick of all these Solaris workarounds and very tempted
to just remove them.

Diego