gcc3-4 upgrade breaks some scripts

[Don Hayward <don@pomobuli.net>]

I just tried an upgrade from gcc3.4.

This error occured.

Setting up base-files (3.1.2.0.0.2.gcc4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst: line 120: /usr/bin/awk: No such file or directory
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst: line 120: /usr/bin/awk: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Although ls -l /usr/bin/awk eventually links to /usr/bin/mawk which shows:

ls -l /usr/bin/mawk
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 108040 May 24  2004 /usr/bin/mawk

But attempting to execute mawk directly produces:

/usr/bin/mawk --help
-bash: /usr/bin/mawk: No such file or directory

some other commands are also failing, e.g.

/usr/bin/jgraph --help
-bash: /usr/bin/jgraph: No such file or directory
ls -l /usr/bin/jgraph
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 73000 Jul 28 03:25 /usr/bin/jgraph


other /usr/bin commands work, e.g. /usr/bin/emacs runs.

Any help aprreciated greatly.  Thanks.

Don

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