Re: FYI: fix-bootstrap-translation-download-on-darwin

Hi Gary,

Gary V. Vaughan <gary <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>   	Work around a bug in darwin's awk:

>   	(func_get_translations): The first awk script mangles the last
>   	entry passed to it for at least the awk implementation shipped
>   	with Darwin 8.10.1.  Capture $3 into a variable too to work-
>   	around that problem.

Could you be bothered to explain what this bug does?  I don't quite
understand from the patch nor the description.  Should it be listed
in the Autoconf shell portability section?

Thanks!
Ralf