Here's the fix for the problem that Evan Champion reported today.

scrappy · scrappy · commit 2adb6d703bd2 · 1996-08-24T20:38:56.000Z
This presumably corrects a problem of initdb failing on systems that have
an awk that is sensitive to this.

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diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh b/src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/Attic/genbki.sh,v 1.3 1996/08/21 04:25:44 scrappy Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/Attic/genbki.sh,v 1.4 1996/08/24 20:38:56 scrappy Exp $
 #
 # NOTES
 #    non-essential whitespace is removed from the generated file.
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ BEGIN {
 # by the sed above.
 # ----------------
 /^\/\*/           { comment_level += 1; next; }
-/^*\//            { comment_level -= 1; next; }
+/^\*\//           { comment_level -= 1; next; }
 comment_level > 0 { next; }
 
 /^[ 	]*$/      { next; }

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@`
`10`	`10`	`#`
`11`	`11`	`#`
`12`	`12`	`# IDENTIFICATION`
`13`		`-# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/Attic/genbki.sh,v 1.3 1996/08/21 04:25:44 scrappy Exp $`
	`13`	`+# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/Attic/genbki.sh,v 1.4 1996/08/24 20:38:56 scrappy Exp $`
`14`	`14`	`#`
`15`	`15`	`# NOTES`
`16`	`16`	`# non-essential whitespace is removed from the generated file.`
`@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ BEGIN {`
`91`	`91`	`# by the sed above.`
`92`	`92`	`# ----------------`
`93`	`93`	`/^\/\*/ { comment_level += 1; next; }`
`94`		`-/^*\// { comment_level -= 1; next; }`
	`94`	`+/^\*\// { comment_level -= 1; next; }`
`95`	`95`	`comment_level > 0 { next; }`
`96`	`96`
`97`	`97`	`/^[ ]*$/ { next; }`