problems with Android NDK-7 and AWK

Question

I am having problems with the latest Android NDK:

ligi@ligid:~$ ndk-build 
/home/ligi/bin/android-ndk/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/awk: 1: ELF: not found
/home/ligi/bin/android-ndk/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/awk: 4: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
Android NDK: Host 'awk' tool is outdated. Please define HOST_AWK to point to Gawk or Nawk !    
/home/ligi/bin/android-ndk/build/core/init.mk:258: *** Android NDK: Aborting.    .  Stop.

ligi@ligid:~$ `echo $HOST_AWK --v`
GNU Awk 3.1.7

I am on stock ubuntu ant totally out of ideas and good keywords for searches

Answer 1

I also had this issue and found this Japanese site with similar problems:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yohpapa/20111113/1321198570

I hope I puzzled out the Google Translated stuff correctly - in any case, basically in the new NDK install, find this directory:

..../android-ndk-r7/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin

and rename the file "awk" there to something else like "awk_"

I did this and ndk_build now works for me. If I am reading the make files right there is a file called init.mk which replaces your HOST_AWK with the prebuilt value if it finds it...so renaming the awk file there defaults back to your gawk.

Hope that helps

Kibi