Building emacs for Alpine Linux info/dir target failure

Question

I am trying to build emacs for Alpine Linux by following the instructions. After installing the relevant packages I run

configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-mailutils --enable-gcc-warnings --with-modules --enable-link-time-optimization

Then I run make and I run into the following problem

make info/dir

throws

awk: bad regex '@value{emacsname}': Invalid contents of {}

The problematic line is in make-info-dir:L41

gsub(/@value{emacsname}/, "Emacs")

Any guess as to why that happens? If I delete the line it seems to work.

Answer 1

Found it, for some reason emacs is not happy with the busybox awk. Installing gawk seems to resolve the problem.