Bug 1149117 – awk: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator

Bug 1149117 - awk: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator


Summary:	awk: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	openSUSE
Product:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Basesystem
Version:	Current
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Assigned To:	Dirk Mueller
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Reported:	2019-09-02 14:31 UTC by Luis Henriques
Modified:	2022-05-10 11:25 UTC (History)
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Description Luis Henriques 2019-09-02 14:31:20 UTC

Since last dist-upgrade, I see warnings when, e.g. building a kernel:

awk: arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:259: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator
awk: arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:349: (FILENAME=arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt FNR=41) warning: regexp escape sequence `\&' is not a known regexp operator

Apparently, this started happening after gawk upgrade to 5.0.1-1.2.

Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2022-05-10 11:25:08 UTC

this has been fixed in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/700c1018b86d0d4b3f1f2d459708c0cdf42b521d

which is in kernel 5.5 or newer.