awk line error

[vandevoort]

Hi I'am only the owner of this case not the the programmer : they encountered next error :
in HP-UX 11v31 Itanium ( hp-gcc-4.3.4 )
has someone have any Idea where to look at ??

(t/130)retrmsb@ahv005:lib/src$ make -f retek.mk depend 2>&1 | tee libdpnd.log
awk: Line JDBC_ALL_LRGS = srto cannot have more than 199 fields.
The input line number is 1084.
The source line number is 1.
Make: line 236: syntax error.  Stop.
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The 'awk' furnished by HP-UX has the limitation of 199 fields as you encountered.

One choice is to install GNU 'awk' from the Porting Center:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gawk-3.1.8/

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

This is a limitation in awk. If the lines are also less then 3000 bytes, you could select a different field delimiter or split your own lines.
Or you need to use GNU awk, gawk, where there are no limits.

[vandevoort]

Thanks James and Dennis .
I downloaded the gawk.
This solved my awk(ward) situation :-) .

[vandevoort]

solved ..