telling glibc to use gawk instead of mawk

Virtuality · 01-11-2008, 10:22 PM

As the topic says; my compiler is trying to use mawk but I want to use gawk, I have gawk and mawk installed.

Uncle_Theodore · 01-11-2008, 10:34 PM

Does this ring a bell?
[ted@toshiba64 ted]$ ls -l `which awk`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 15 13:17 /bin/awk -> gawk

What does it have to do with glibc?

Virtuality · 01-11-2008, 11:08 PM

# ls -l `which awk`
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-12-17 06:09 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk

Not sure what to do with that... :/

I'm trying to compile glibc 2.7 but it tries to use mawk instead of gawk, and it causes errors

Uncle_Theodore · 01-11-2008, 11:20 PM

Well, what does /etc/alternatives/awk point to? I bet it's /bit/mawk Check with
ls -l /etc/alternatives/awk
If you want it to point to /bin/gawk just change that symlink.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/91
Something like
update-alternatives set awk /bin/gawk
or /bin/squeak or whatever you want it to be.

Sorry, your thread title looks somewhat funny to me...

Virtuality · 01-12-2008, 02:55 AM

I did 'update-alternatives --set awk /usr/bin/gawk'

And it's still trying to use mawk.

That's where it is installed on my system:
'update-alternatives: Cannot find alternative `/bin/gawk'.'

Code:

# ls -l /etc/alternatives/awk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-01-12 21:45 /etc/alternatives/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk

Tinkster · 01-12-2008, 12:22 PM

you should probably install it then?

apt-get install gawk

Cheers,
Tink

Uncle_Theodore · 01-12-2008, 01:22 PM

OK. So, gawk is installed in /usr/bin. Where is mawk installed? In /bin? Then, probably, since in your PATH variable /bin preceeds /usr/bin, the installer insists on using /bin/mawk. You might wanna create a symlink /bin/gawk to /usr/bin/gawk

BTW, it's not a good idea to install glibc from sources. You will most likely destroy your entire system.