In article <20050529194214.GC28637@chup.gado>,
	Denis Lagno <dlagno@rambler.ru> writes:
> 
> configure from zsh (current from cvs) does not work on NetBSD:
> 
> checking where signal.h is located... awk: syntax error at source line 1
>  context is
>          { if ($1 ~ >>>  \ <<< "sig\") files[$1] = $1 }
> awk: illegal statement at source line 2
> /usr/include/sys/signal.h
> checking where error names are located... awk: syntax error at source line 1
>  context is
>          { if ($1 ~ >>>  \ <<< "err\") files[$1] = $1 }
> awk: illegal statement at source line 2
> configure: error: ERROR MACROS NOT FOUND:  please report to developers
> 
> Apparently there is something that nawk cannot handle.
> Is this non-standard construction or is NetBSD's nawk broken?

The configure script is insane.  Regular expressions should be 
delimited by the "slash" ("/"), a.k.a the "solidus", a.k.a the 
"diagonal".


Frederick