Re: Problem compiling gawk 3.1.1 on Solaris 8 (Sparc) with gcc 3.2

[Aharon Robbins]

Your problem appears to be that you're building in a subdirectory of
the source directory, which doesn't seem to work. (Nor, as far  as I know,
is it supposed to.)

I suggest removing that subdirectory, and attempting to build in a
parallel directory, or just building in the source directory itself.
The canonical invocation:

        gzip -d < gawk-3.1.1.tar.gz | tar -xvpf -
        cd gawk-3.1.1
        ./configure && make && make check

should work without problems.

Prebuilt binaries, in Sun's pkgadd(1) format, are availble from
sunfreeware.com.

Good luck,

Arnold