Re: cannot compile xcolors under Linux with native X11

[Johnny Lam <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost wrote:
> 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...

No, but using [] to quote characters in awk is perfectly acceptable, and 
I think we should apply the patch.

        Cheers,

        -- Johnny Lam <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>