>Number: 4050
>Category: general
>Synopsis: Top level Makefile contains platform dependency in the part
>that determines the platform.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 12 09:50:01 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.4
>Environment:
APACI configuration using --shadow
(generic problem)
>Description:
When doing a multi-platform configuration using --shadow, the configure
script generates a top level Makefile which is used on all platforms.
Unfortunately this Makefile contains a platform dependency, namely the
location of "awk" in this line:
GNUTRIPLE=`src/helpers/GuessOS | sed -e 's:/:-:g' | /bin/gawk '{
printf("%s",$$1); }'`
If awk is in a different location on other platforms, the make will not work.
>How-To-Repeat:
./configure --shadow
on two platforms in turn, where the location of the "best" awk on the
first system does not correspond to a working awk on the second.
My example is Digital Unix where /bin/nawk is chosen, followed by RedHat
Linux where /bin/nawk does not exist and /bin/gawk is best.
>Fix:
Try to avoid needing awk in the platform-independent bits?
>Audit-Trail:
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