From 1bbaa8cfbd764b16d1ba892266ff641a60f67707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:36:47 +0000
Subject: Better comment explaining that GNU awk is really required.

---
 configure.ac | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'configure.ac')

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e6f49822..22077bf7 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ AC_CANONICAL_TARGET()
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
-dnl we need gawk for memtypes.awk
+dnl GNU awk is required for lib/memtype.h made by memtypes.awk.
+dnl BSD awk complains: awk: gensub doesn't support backreferences (subst "\1")
 AC_CHECK_PROG([GAWK],[gawk],[gawk],[/bin/false])
 AC_ARG_VAR([GAWK],[GNU AWK])
 
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