File parsing and cloumn indexing problem

[Daniel Belz]

Hi,
I'm trying to cross-compile the gawk package for
PowerPC following the CLFS guide, but something is
wrong. Look at the following example:

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A precompile ppc binary from ELDK (denx):
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# gawk 'FS=":" { print $4 }' /etc/passwd

1
99
501
504
# gawk 'FS=":" { print $"4" }' /etc/passwd

1
99
501
504
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My cross gawk:
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#  gawk 'FS=":" { print $4 }' /etc/passwd

x
x
x
x
#  gawk 'FS=":" { print $"4" }' /etc/passwd

1
99
501
504
=========


Any idea what is happening? I saw the same problem
with the version 3.1.5.



There is my software versions:
Gcc 4.0.0
libc-2.3.5
GNU Awk 3.1.4
Kernel 2.6.14


Regards,
DB