Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Can't build 1.4.2 from git repository

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

Filipe Fernandes <ffe...@gm...> writes:
>
> I looked at line 55 of src/select-usage.c and it does contain the character
> '\', which I believe in C should be '\\'.  src/select-usage.c appears to be
> auto-generated using the script usage2c.awk script.

mawk wants a different number of backslashes than gawk to output a
backslash in gsub(). After taking a short look at [1] I decided I really
don't want to know why, so I've rewritten usage2c.awk to avoid
backslashes in gsub(). Please try the latest git (e9cd8843cb1f27).

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Gory-Details.html