Bug 684346 – app-portage/pfl with sys-apps/gawk-5.0.0 - e-file: awk: cmd. line:55: warning: regexp escape sequence `\"' is not a known regexp operator

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description amedeos 2019-04-25 16:58:00 UTC]

After gawk updates to 5.0.0 I receives this warning when run e-file:

$ e-file e-file
awk: cmd. line:55: warning: regexp escape sequence `\"' is not a known regexp operator

seems that the code involved is at line 90 and line 100 [1].

I'm in ~amd64, and let me know if you need any further informations 

[1] from /ust/bin/e-file code:

   87                 if(NF==0){
   88                     HOMEPAGE=""
   89                 }else{
   90                     split($0,tempArr,/\"/)                                                                                                                                                                  
   91                     HOMEPAGE=tempArr[2]
   92                 }
   93                 
   94                 NF=0
   95                 cmd="(grep -h DESCRIPTION " PORTDIR "/" pkg "/*.ebuild | tail -n 1)2>/dev/null"
   96                 cmd | getline
   97                 if(NF==0){
   98                     DESCRIPTION=""
   99                 }else{
  100                     split($0,tempArr,/\"/)
  101                     DESCRIPTION=tempArr[2]
  102                 }
  103             }else{

[Comment 1 Daniel Pielmeier 2019-06-23 09:28:17 UTC]

Created attachment 580552 [details, diff]
Support gawk 5

Thanks for the report!

I think it should be sufficient to just remove the backslash at these two occurrences.

[Comment 2 Daniel Pielmeier 2019-07-06 09:41:26 UTC]

Fixed in Git with pfl-3.0.1.