[tz] make traditional_tarballs fails on macOS for 2022b

[Philip Paeps]

On 2022-08-11 10:26:44 (+0800), Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
> Thanks for reporting the problem. This appears to be a bug in macOS 
> awk, as it is reporting a syntax error here:
>
>   stdoff_column = 2 * /^Zone/ + 1
>
> even though POSIX says this is a valid awk statement.
>
> I don't observe the bug on FreeBSD 13.0, where "awk --version" reports 
> "awk version 20190529 (FreeBSD)".

I do see this on FreeBSD 13.1 which has awk version 20210215.

> Please try the attached patch, which I have installed in the 
> development repository. I hope it works around the macOS bug, but I 
> don't have easy access to macOS to try it. If this patch works for 
> you, please file a bug report with whoever is maintaining 'awk' on 
> macOS, as statements like the above should work.

This patch works on FreeBSD.  Thanks for the quick fix!

Philip

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Philip Paeps
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