problems with Android NDK-7 and AWK

I also had this issue and found this Japanese site with similar problems:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yohpapa/20111113/1321198570

I hope I puzzled out the Google Translated stuff correctly - in any case, basically in the new NDK install, find this directory:

..../android-ndk-r7/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin

and rename the file "awk" there to something else like "awk_"

I did this and ndk_build now works for me. If I am reading the make files right there is a file called init.mk which replaces your HOST_AWK with the prebuilt value if it finds it...so renaming the awk file there defaults back to your gawk.

Hope that helps

Kibi

The problem is the executable ndk/prebuild/linux-x86/awk is compiled for x86_64, it's not run in a 32 bit kernel

This should resolve the problem.

I was having a problem with different versions of awk on windows. This change uses the cygwin version of awk from a cygwin console and the prebuilt version from a dos console.

Add to init.mk:

ifeq ($(HOST_OS),cygwin)
       HOST_AWK := /bin/awk
endif

Go to your <ndk_dir>\build\core\ and open init.mk in a text editor, e.g. notepad

Replace the following line

HOST_AWK := $(wildcard $(HOST_PREBUILT)/awk$(HOST_EXEEXT))

with

ifeq ($(HOST_OS),cygwin)
      HOST_AWK := $(wildcard $(HOST_PREBUILT)/gawk$(HOST_EXEEXT))
else
      HOST_AWK := $(wildcard $(HOST_PREBUILT)/awk$(HOST_EXEEXT))
endif

@Tod : Thanks, I used your hint here

That works.