Re: awk behaviour?

On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:02:30 -0400
Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 15:15, Michael Butler via freebsd-current
> <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > What prompted the question was my (obviously poor) attempt to debug
> > and resolve this failure when attempting to build a release for
> > i386 on an amd64 ..  
> 
> This will be due to my 4e224e4be7c3. I'm not sure exactly what's
> happening yet, but I can provoke this behaviour if `${PKG_CMD}
> --version` outputs something other than a single line with the version
> number.
> 

Could it be, that the pkg binary isn't installed in $LOCALBASE/sbin/pkg,
(whatever LOCALBASE is at that point)? This would make pkg --version
shows its bootstrap message: 

  The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
  Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: 

which could explain the behavior.

Just speculating...

-m

-- 
Michael Gmelin