Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel

["David De Graff" <debian@platformglobal.com>]

Herbert,

Thanks for the tip. I had actually tried that as one of my first solutions,
and I just tried it again. No improvement - the same error persists.

Any ideas for another approach?

Best,

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "David De Graff" <debian@platformglobal.com>;
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: 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.