make fails for clientcomm in Ubuntu 8.10

[hicksa@…]

I have a freshly installed & updated server running Ubuntu 8.10 with all required rasdaman dependencies installed as noted by running the configure script.

'make' fails in clientcomm with the error:

/usr/bin/rpcgen -l -o rpcif_clnt.cc.tmp rpcif.x
mawk -f rpcif_clnt.c.awk rpcif_clnt.cc.tmp > rpcif_clnt.cc
mawk: rpcif_clnt.c.awk: line 12: regular expression compile failed (missing '(')
\) *!= *RPC_SUCCESS *)
mawk: rpcif_clnt.c.awk: line 17: regular expression compile failed (missing '(')
\) *!= *RPC_SUCCESS *)
make: * [rpcif_clnt.cc] Error 2

repeating 'make' gives a different error, the error can not be replicated until 'make clean' and rpcif_clnt.cc.tmp is deleted.

[hicksa@…]

Resolved, installed required packages autoconf, libtool, and gawk.

Effectivly this is a symptom of issue #21

[hholzgra]

Builds should IMHO actually work no matter what awk implementation is used (or configure should enforce gawk and fail if it only finds mawk)

In the case of this ticket it is rather easy to modify the awk scripts so that they work with both the gawk and mawk implementation

"How to reproduce" is "make clean; make" btw, as the rpcgen/awk is not executed at all if building from a fresh checkout due to result files being bundled already …

[Peter Baumann]

excellent! Patch works for me, is in.