Re: Again error with graphics.h

[David Bateman]

Andrea Spadaccini wrote:
> 2008/5/27 Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>:
> 
>>> $ cd src
>>> $ make graphics.h
>>>
>> is graphics.h created after this command?
>> Building graphics.h requires awk. Do you have awk installed? Is it set
>> properly in the Makeconf file?
> 
> You are right, it is not created! I thought that I had read that it
> was correctly created.
> I've got AWK.
> 
> Here's the error:
> address@hidden:~/octave-hg/octave/src$ make graphics.h
> making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
> defaults.h is unchanged
> making graphics.h
> mawk: ./genprops.awk: line 413: syntax error at or near ,
> mawk: ./genprops.awk: line 439: syntax error at or near ,
> 
> Thanks,
> 


Lines 413 and 439 correspond to the only lines in genprops.awk that call
the gensub function. gensub is a gawk extension to awk and so in fact
you don't just need awk but rather gawk.. Perhaps we should either test
for this in teh configure or remove the use of gensub from genprops.awk

D.