rcs2log fails with system awk

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From: Jonathan I. Kamens
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 03:23

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In GNU Emacs 19.25.2 of Fri Aug 12 1994 on gza-client1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3)

I encountered an RCS log where the rcs2log script failed when using
the awk shipped with SunOS 4.1.3.

I copied the script and changed all invocations of awk to use gawk
instead, and the script then started working.

I'm going to fix this locally by just modifying the installed rcs2log
script to use gawk instead of awk, but it would be nice if the
configure script for Emacs checked for gawk and installed a version of
rcs2log to use it if it's found.

Thanks,

Jonathan Kamens  |  OpenVision Technologies, Inc.  |   jik@cam.ov.com

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