build.sh gawk error: "warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator"

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build.sh gawk error: "warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator"

todbot opened this issue a year ago · comments

I am seeing this now on a fresh checkout of this repo and running build.sh.
It seems to be kicking out CI errors as seen here

% ./build.sh
gawk: cmd. line:1: warning: regexp escape sequence `\:' is not a known regexp operator

Tod Kurt · Answer 1 · Tue Jun 06 2023 01:26:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The problem seems to be if someone has added a submodule that doesn't have an official semantic versioning release number.

Alec Delaney · Answer 2 · Wed Jun 07 2023 22:23:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Closing since it looks like this is resolved. If we want to reopen a new issue (or modify this one) to try and make the fix for the error clearer we can do that!

foamyguy · Answer 3 · Wed Jun 07 2023 22:52:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I would still be in favor of trying to find a way to resolve that warning. It doesn't seem to prevent the build from completing, but in cases where there are other issues it adds confusion by being a red herring.

Unfortunately I'm guessing the issue, and it's solution is somewhere inside of the gnarly regex or whatever is in the gawk command inside build.sh