branch master updated: * configure.ac (TI_AWK): Check for "nawk" before awk, as plain awk on Solaris 11.4 is an archaic version lacking features we need, like user-defined functions. Report from Bruno Haible.

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     new effedb2704 * configure.ac (TI_AWK): Check for "nawk" before awk, as 
plain awk on Solaris 11.4 is an archaic version lacking features we need, like 
user-defined functions.  Report from Bruno Haible.
effedb2704 is described below

commit effedb270451918758a8822f064f4e23ebb6b6d5
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 23 19:52:45 2022 +0100

    * configure.ac (TI_AWK): Check for "nawk" before awk, as
    plain awk on Solaris 11.4 is an archaic version lacking features
    we need, like user-defined functions.  Report from Bruno Haible.
---
 ChangeLog    | 6 ++++++
 configure.ac | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6afa4ec116..fadcd448ef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2022-10-23  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * configure.ac (TI_AWK): Check for "nawk" before awk, as
+       plain awk on Solaris 11.4 is an archaic version lacking features
+       we need, like user-defined functions.  Report from Bruno Haible.
+
 2022-10-23  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        Fix install-info tests on mingw
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1cd323cff4..d0c2f9f530 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([tap-driver.sh])
 # awk for texindex.
 # don't use AC_PROG_AWK because this prefers gawk, which is much slower
 # than mawk for texindex and texi2dvi
-AC_CHECK_PROGS([TI_AWK], [awk mawk gawk], [])
+AC_CHECK_PROGS([TI_AWK], [nawk mawk awk gawk], [])
 if test -z "$TI_AWK"; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR([awk not found])
 fi