firefox-wrapper broken on lucid: "default" is now an awk reserved word

[geofft]

If you try running Firefox on lucid while your profile is locked from another machine, you get the "Firefox is running, but not responding." dialog box instead of our dialog box indicating Firefox is in use on another computer.

On further investigation, if you run firefox at a command prompt, you see:

mary-kay-commandos:~ geofft$ firefox
awk: cmd. line:24:       default = "";
awk: cmd. line:24:       ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:31:             default = id;
awk: cmd. line:31:             ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:34:       if (use_default != 0 && default != "")
awk: cmd. line:34:                               ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:36:       else if (nprofiles == 1 && count == 1)
awk: cmd. line:36:       ^ syntax error

Apparently this is because as of Lucid's version of awk, default is a reserved word:

dr-wily:~ geofft$ awk --version | head -1
GNU Awk 3.1.5
dr-wily:~ geofft$ awk 'BEGIN {default=3; print default;}'
3
dr-wily:~ geofft$ awk 'BEGIN {defaul=3; print defaul;}'
3

mary-kay-commandos:~ geofft$ awk --version | head -1
GNU Awk 3.1.6
mary-kay-commandos:~ geofft$ awk 'BEGIN {default=3; print default;}'
awk: BEGIN {default=3; print default;}
awk:        ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN {default=3; print default;}
awk:                         ^ syntax error
mary-kay-commandos:~ geofft$ awk 'BEGIN {defaul=3; print defaul;}'
3

[rbasch]

Confirmed; default, which can be used within a switch statement, is now reserved. I will write a patch soon to rename the variable.

[rbasch]

Fixed in r24728 (10.0.8).

[broder]

Moved to production