Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel
David De Graff <debian@platformglobal.com> wrote:
> On each attempt to execute make menuconfig, I get the error:
>
> gcc -o lxdialog checklist.o menubox.o textbox.o yesno.o inputbox.o util.o
> lxdialog.o msgbox.o -lncurses
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog'
> /bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
> Using defaults found in .config
> Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 663
> Segmentation fault awk "$1"
> Awk died with error code 139. Giving up.
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
See http://bugs.debian.org/81487/
The quick solution is to use gawk instead of mawk.
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