Question (bug ?) - how to build gawk for Linux on PowerPC ? What are pre-requisites to be prior installed ?

[Povolotsky, Alexander]

Hi,

Question (bug ?) - how to build gawk for Linux on PowerPC ? What are
pre-requisites to be prior installed ?
See below the capture of failure to buid gawk "natively" (should I
crosscompile instead ?)

address@hidden:/gawk/gawk-3.1.3# set
BASH=/bin/bash
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="05b" [2]="0" [3]="1" [4]="release"
[5]="powerpc-unkn
own-linux-gnu")
BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'
COLUMNS=80
DIRSTACK=()
EUID=0
GROUPS=()
HISTFILE=//.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HOME=/
HOSTNAME=192.168.0.5
HOSTTYPE=powerpc
IFS=$' \t\n'
LINES=24
MACHTYPE=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
MAILCHECK=60
OLDPWD=/gawk
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1
OSTYPE=linux-gnu
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")
PPID=1
PS1='address@hidden:\w\$ '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
PWD=/gawk/gawk-3.1.3
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:
moni
tor
SHLVL=2
TERM=linux
UID=0
_=alias
address@hidden:/gawk/gawk-3.1.3#
address@hidden:/gawk/gawk-3.1.3# CC=powerpc-gcc LD=powerpc-ld AS=powerpc-as
./configure
rm: invalid option -- f
usage: rm [-d] [-q len] [conf]rm: invalid option -- f
usage: rm [-d] [-q len] [conf]rm: invalid option -- f
usage: rm [-d] [-q len] [conf]rm: invalid option -- r
usage: rm [-d] [-q len] [conf]sed: invalid option -- n
usage: sed [-d] [-q len] [conf]configure: error: cannot find install-sh or
install.sh in  /.. /../..
sed: invalid option -- n
usage: sed [-d] [-q len] [conf]rm: invalid option -- f

Thanks,
Alex