It's a bug in gawk 4.2.0, reported at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2018-01/msg00026.html .
* gettext-tools/tests/lang-gawk: Skip the test if gawk's version is 4.2.0.
: ${MSGFMT=msgfmt}
${MSGFMT} -o fr/LC_MESSAGES/prog.mo fr.po
-# Test for presence of gawk version 3.1.3 or newer, excluding version 3.1.5.
+# Test for presence of gawk version 3.1.3 or newer, excluding versions 3.1.5 and 4.2.0.
(gawk --version) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null \
|| { echo "Skipping test: gawk not found"; Exit 77; }
case `gawk --version 2>&1 | sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//'` in
- 0.* | 1.* | 2.* | 3.0* | 3.1.0* | 3.1.1* | 3.1.2* | 3.1.5*)
+ 0.* | 1.* | 2.* | 3.0* | 3.1.0* | 3.1.1* | 3.1.2* | 3.1.5* | 4.2.0*)
echo "Skipping test: gawk version too old"; Exit 77;;
esac