I can confirm the problem. I've had awk scripts fail mysteriously due to this bug on amd64. The current upstream release (3.1.6) has this fixed.
To be honest, I'm surprised this hasn't broken all kinds of stuff on my system -- is awk not widely used for configuration, etc? -- match operator broken on amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127850 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
