Re: cannot compile xcolors under Linux with native X11

[joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:19:10PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > 0 x11-links>bmake install
> ...
> > awk: run time error: regular expression compile failed (Invalid content of 
> > \{\})
> > \${LOWER_VENDOR}
> >         FILENAME="-" FNR=1 NR=1
> 
> See PR #33410.

Idiotic GNU. No, we can't implement extended RE as almost anyone else
does. POSIX was so nice to reduce the standard once more to the minimal
consent...

About the patch, it is still not perfect...

Joerg