gawk problems with SVN r6286

[Werner LEMBERG]

Using GNU awk 4.1.1 and xgettext 0.19.2, I get warnings and then
errors while trying to compile SVN r6286 from scratch.

  [...]
  /usr/bin/xgettext: warning:
    file 'texindex/ti.twjr' extension 'twjr' is unknown; will try C
  texindex/ti.twjr:13: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:107: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:212: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:269: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:310: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:326: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:327: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:332: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:382: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:559: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:564: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:575: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:582: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:595: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:596: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:612: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:620: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:679: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:699: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:783: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:840: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:985: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:1031: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:1054: warning: unterminated character constant
  texindex/ti.twjr:1211: warning: unterminated character constant

  [...]
  gawk -f ./jrtangle ./ti.twjr || rm -f texindex.awk
  gawk: ./jrtangle:401: /address@hidden:space:]]*$/,
  gawk: ./jrtangle:401:                                    ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:415: error: `next' used in BEGIN action
  gawk: ./jrtangle:417: BEGIN {
  gawk: ./jrtangle:417: ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:423: /address@hidden:space:]]/ {
  gawk: ./jrtangle:423:                            ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:432: error: `next' used in BEGIN action
  gawk: ./jrtangle:437: function create_update_recipe(file, results,
  gawk: ./jrtangle:437: ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:458: BEGIN {
  gawk: ./jrtangle:458: ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:463: /address@hidden:space:]]+/ {
  gawk: ./jrtangle:463:                             ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:475: function dump_chunks(     i, format)
  gawk: ./jrtangle:475: ^ syntax error
  gawk: ./jrtangle:481: 
  gawk: ./jrtangle:481: ^ syntax error

The problem must have been introduced after February 24th, since then
I compiled texinfo just fine.


    Werner