There's no longer any reason to require GNU awk:
- the only part that required it (socks proxy settings) is gone,
- all remaining awk scripts are POSIXly correct (or should be).

-------- diffstat follows --------
/trunk/configure | 5 2 3 0 ++---
/trunk/Makefile.in | 2 0 2 0 --
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel/linux.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/scripts/build/internals.sh | 1 0 1 0 -
/trunk/scripts/build/mpfr.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/scripts/functions | 4 2 2 0 ++--
/trunk/scripts/saveSample.sh.in | 4 2 2 0 ++--
7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Original patch from: gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.9/6017_all_alpha-glibc-2.8-creat.patch

-= BEGIN original header =-

alpha does not have a __NR_creat

http://bugs.gentoo.org/227275

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6650

-= END original header =-

diff -durN glibc-2_9.orig/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/creat64.c glibc-2_9/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/creat64.c

--- glibc-2_9.orig/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/creat64.c	2007-11-10 20:34:26.000000000 +0100

+++ glibc-2_9/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/creat64.c	2009-02-02 22:01:35.000000000 +0100

@@ -1 +1,5 @@

 /* Defined as alias for the syscall.  */

+#include <sysdep.h>

+#ifndef __NR_creat

+#include "../../../../../io/creat64.c"

+#endif