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(-)

 --- gdb-6.1.1-dist/readline/configure	2003-05-27 18:29:47.000000000 -0500

 +++ gdb-6.1.1/readline/configure	2004-08-09 14:20:23.000000000 -0500

 @@ -6249,7 +6249,12 @@

  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for mbstate_t" >&5

 +echo $ECHO_N "bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=$bash_cv_have_mbstate_t" >&6

  echo $ECHO_N "checking for mbstate_t... $ECHO_C" >&6

 +if test "${bash_cv_have_mbstate_t+set}" != set; then

 +  bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=yes

 +  echo $ECHO_N "WARNING!! forcing to yes!!! $ECHO_C" >&6

 +fi

  if test "${bash_cv_have_mbstate_t+set}" = set; then

    echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6

  else