Bug 455654

Summary:	app-text/txt2man: awk dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) <junghans>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Tim Harder <radhermit>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	418473

Description Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 18:34:36 UTC

Can you please have a look if virtual/awk is sufficient or if gawk is needed.

Comment 1 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 20:17:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Can you please have a look if virtual/awk is sufficient or if gawk is needed.

You could have checked this on your own. Quoting the comment from txt2man line 171 verbatim, "gawk is needed because use of non standard regexp."

If you want to patch it to work with other awk implementations please push the patch upstream.