Re: texinfo-6.7.90 pretest on AIX

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 04:57:45PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Therefore I think it will be better to prefer 'gawk' to 'awk' in the configure
> test. That is, change
>   AC_CHECK_PROGS([TI_AWK], [awk mawk gawk], [])
> to
>   AC_CHECK_PROGS([TI_AWK], [gawk awk mawk], [])
> 
> Note: The Autoconf macro AC_PROG_AWK also prefers 'gawk' to all other awk
> implementations.

I'll have a look to see if the issue can be fixed any other way, but the
reason I changed it away from AC_PROG_AWK was I was irritated when I ran
texi2dvi at the time taken for texindex to run in between runs of TeX.
The default awk program on my system (which I think is mawk) is much
faster so the run time for texindex is not as noticeable.