Re: awk portability (was: use execute module in m4)

Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.patches
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> > cd . && AWK=nawk ./get-them ../doc/m4.texinfo
> > awk: There is a regular expression error.
> >         \{ \} imbalence
> >  The source line number is 99.

P.S.  Based on the context, it looks like you copied and pasted, which means 
nawk has a typo in their output.  Does that typo in "imbalance" appear in the 
system regerror() from <regex.h>, or is it localized to nawk?

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Eric Blake
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