On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Randall Lucas <rlucas@tercent.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> I believe the most likely theory is that your copy of /sw/bin/awk
>> got corrupted during the transfer from your old machine, and the
>> second most likely theory is that the executable is bitwise the same
>> but it doesn't play nice with the system libraries on your new box,
>> and the third is that there was something wrong with that specific
>> Fink-port build (though if so, it should have failed on your old
>> machine too). In any case it sounds like a very local problem.
>
>
> I will try compiling 8.3.3 (and testing gawk) on my old 10.4 Intel Mac
> which was the source of the gawk binary. I'll also report if the
> binary is bitwise identical. No reply solicited for that; I just want
> to keep it all in the same thread for archival / search engine
> purposes.
$ /sw/bin/awk -W version
GNU Awk 3.1.5
Confirming that reinstalling Fink de novo on OS X 10.5 gives me a
properly working gawk.