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On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
> In PCB's build, we call "some variant of awk" to build the library.
> However, we use a GNU extension (note the third argument):
>
>        match (comment, /(.*)\[(.*)\]/, fp);
>
> Is it intentional that we require GNU awk (in which case
> configure/docs need to be changed) or not (in which case, the awk
> script needs to be changed) ?
>

In case we want to go for portable (POSIX?) awk, the above can be 
rewritten using multiple match() calls and RSTART/RLENGTH.

Regards,

Igor2