awk broken on Alpha. Breaks "make world".
David Schultz
das at FreeBSD.ORG
Mon May 5 15:20:39 PDT 2003
On Sat, May 03, 2003, Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi All
>
> There seems to be breakage of awk(1) on alpha. This is breaking
> "make world". This is with sources about 4 hours older than this mail.
>
> Doing a "make depend" in src/usr.bin/truss triggers the problem.
>
> [grapeshot] /usr/src/usr.bin/truss # make depend
> cp /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/../../sys/kern/syscalls.master syscalls.master
> /bin/sh /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/../../sys/kern/makesyscalls.sh syscalls.master /
> usr/src/usr.bin/truss/i386.conf
> awk: floating point exception 8
> input record number 325, file
> source line number 87
> *** Error code 2
The gdtoa import caused awk on Alpha to fail to work with any
script that has a symbol whose name starts with the letters
'nan'...such as 'nanosleep'. Compiling awk with -mieee fixes this
problem, so this flag has been the default in bsd.cpu.mk since 3/29.
Sorry about that.
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