Re: [PATCH] Implement AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([DEFAULT-MODE]).

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 03:23:37AM CEST:
> Thanks, it seems to work well. (Now I have another problem because
> awk isn't available, while it wasn't required in the past; I'll try
> to build it if its build doesn't depend on itself.)

Yes, awk is needed more and more in Autoconf and Automake.
(I have some patches which will use it even more often.)

GNU awk should be cross compilable, but also it has not, as far as I
know, yet updated to autotools which need an awk to be present.  Since
this is bound to happen at some point, if cross compilation is not an
option for some system, and neither is compiling an old gawk version
first etc.), then we need to discuss the situation; preferably with the
Gawk maintainer, bug-standards, Autoconf, and Automake people involved.
(But let's not cross that bridge unless we have to, please.)

Cheers,
Ralf