[BRLTTY] error after i run make / keycodes description

Mario Lang mlang at blind.guru
Sat Jul 11 02:30:52 EDT 2020


Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon at videotron.ca> writes:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>> Your brlapi_constants.h is nearly empty. It should be much larger - mine has a
>> little over 400 lines in it. This looks very similar to a problem that was
>> reported, here, about a week ago. The problem was that some of the awk scripts
>> that building brltty uses were compatible with gawk but not with mawk. What
>> does the AWK = line in config.mk say?
>>
>> This problem has now been fixed. Please, therefore, get the latest brltty
>> development source and give it another try.
>
> I'm not sure if this regressed, but I'm encountering this problem
> again, building at head as of right now on Raspbian Buster.
> And
>
> sudo apt install gawk
>
> fixed it.

This is a know issue.  Debian installs mawk by default, while some of
the awk scripts in BRLTTY do require gawk.

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