lib/m4lib_to_newlib.sh breaks build

[David Gander]

After getting a fresh clone of pcb from git I can't compile it due to a problem in lib/m4lib_to_newlib.sh . I get the following output:

rm -fr pcblib-newlib
/bin/bash ./m4lib_to_newlib.sh --contents \
  pcblib.contents --output pcblib-newlib \
   --pcb "../src/pcb" --awk "mawk"
mawk: line 81: syntax error at or near ,
make: *** [pcblib-newlib.stamp] Error 2

The responsible line seems to be actually 200:

match (comment, /(.*)\[(.*)]/, fp);

which I fixed by changing it to

split( comment, fp, "( \[)|(\])" );

Many thanks,
Dave

[Jason (whitewaterssoftwareinfo)]

Confirmed, This big still esists in the master branch or the git repository as of 12/32/2013. The preposed solution still works.

Thanks