2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 58fe07ff..0b10293b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-04-16 Paul Jakma <paul.jakma@sun.com>
+
+	* configure.ac: check for gawk, needed to build memtypes.h
+
 2005-04-11 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu>
 
 	* configure.ac: Move AC_CANONICAL_* stuff before AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d97a82c0..fb7de967 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ AC_CANONICAL_TARGET()
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
+dnl we need gawk for memtypes.awk
+AC_CHECK_PROG([GAWK],[gawk],[gawk],[/bin/false])
+AC_ARG_VAR([GAWK],[GNU AWK])
+
 dnl default is to match previous behavior
 exampledir=${sysconfdir}
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([exampledir],