[BRLTTY] build requires gawk, not mawk

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2019/11/23 at 16:25 +0100]

>While trying to build brltty on a freshly installed system
>which only had mawk installed, not gawk, I got compilation
>issues. Programs/brlapi_constants.h was almost empty. After installing
>gawk, everything went fine. I guess ./configure should detect whether we
>have mawk or gawk.

It seems that mawk (and maybe pure awk as well), although it claims to support
extended regular expressions, isn't recognizing \s for whitespace. I just
installed mawk and shall try to recode the patterns such that they work with
both.

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