Bug#790004: texinfo: dependency on awk alternative possible?

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Jörg-Volker,

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> is it possible to weaken the dependency on gawk to awk in order to allow
> alternative awk packages?

I don't know. You can try: Edit texindex script and change 
	gawk
to
	awk
and then see if it run the same way and produces the same output.

My guess is that, since gawk is *explicitly* called instead of awk,
that that might not be possible.

Norbert

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