I tried forcing the build over to use a plain awk command (mawk, on my machine), but this produces the same build failure -- mawk produces no output when run in the build, while gawk does. I don't know enough awk to sort this out, so here's the obvious patch to build-depend on gawk again.
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diff -aruN refpolicy-0.0.20060509.orig/debian/control refpolicy-0.0.20060509/debian/control --- refpolicy-0.0.20060509.orig/debian/control 2006-08-14 02:36:22.000000000 -0700 +++ refpolicy-0.0.20060509/debian/control 2006-08-14 03:00:50.000000000 -0700 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uploaders: Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0 -Build-Depends: policycoreutils (>= 1.30), checkpolicy (>= 1.30.3), python, m4, bzip2 +Build-Depends: policycoreutils (>= 1.30), checkpolicy (>= 1.30.3), python, m4, gawk, bzip2 Package: selinux-policy-refpolicy-strict Architecture: all