LyX 140 configure problem with awk

[Bennett Helm]

Now that I've finally got cvs set up again, I notice that there's a  
problem with configure on machines without gawk (like Mac OS X).  
Although the code starting at line 1904 correctly finds that I don't  
have gawk, mawk, or nawk but do have awk, and although ac_cv_prog_AWK  
is properly set to awk, I nonetheless find that line 2225 makes all  
this irrelevant (and prevents things from working for me):

AWK=gawk
Any reason line 2225 shouldn't be deleted?

Thanks.

Bennett