I never said it would be simple :-)
But it is irritating that awk is used for such purposes in the first place. I used awk before and I respect its convenience, but if gettext is intended to be cross-platform, a more portable tool should have been used. It is silly to call 'make lyx.po-upate' from scons so I will not do it unless I can find a portable way to perform such tasks. :-( Bo
