[BRLTTY] build requires gawk, not mawk

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Sat Nov 23 14:37:40 EST 2019


[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2019/11/23 at 13:33 -0500]

>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.

Fixed. mawk indeed doesn't support \s for whitespace so those uses have been
changed to [:space:]. Also, mawk doesn't support the strtonum() function.

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