[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues

[Rafa Griman <rafagriman@gmail.com>]

Hi all :)

New to this mailing list. I'm installing Gentoo and when I run
revdep-rebuild I get the following error

# revdep-rebuild
 * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
 * No search defined -- this is a bug.
#

I've been going through /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild.sh but can't quite fix
the issue :( I've also been checking the Gentoo Forums and mailing
list archive but didn't find anything (maybe I'm not searching
correctly ;)

If I've got it right, the issue is because of how gawk and the shell
interpret the "[" characters so I've been trying to escape them ...
but I seem to be doing something wrong :(

I also get a similar error when trying to emerge qca:

>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking qca-2.0.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work/qca-2.0.3 ...
 * Applying qca-2.0.2-pcfilespath.patch ...
 * Applying qca-2.0.3+gcc-4.7.patch ...
>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work/qca-2.0.3 ...
Configuring Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) ...
Verifying Qt 4 build environment ... ok
Checking for Qt >= 4.2 ... yes
Checking for certstore ... /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

Good, your configure finished.  Now run /usr/bin/gmake.

 * Running qmake ...
awk: cmd. line:7: error: Unmatched [ or [^:
/^[[:blank:]]*CONFIG[[:blank:]]*[\+\*]?=/
 *  - error while processing src/src.pro
 * ERROR: app-crypt/qca-2.0.3 failed (configure phase):
 *   eqmake4 failed to process src/src.pro


Any hints, ideas, links, ...I could read into?

TIA

   Rafa