awk & Jensen...help needed

["Rajiv Dighe" <rdighe nortelnetworks com>]

I haven't done any development on any variant of unix. I found 
getting used to gdb rather hard..but that's what you get after 
spending too much time using MSVC. anyways..using good old 
printfs, I have found out where awk is hanging. but I don't have 
enough familiarity with code( rather tools ) to figure out why. If any 
of you gurus have any ideas, suggestions, please give me a shout. 
Now to describe the situation....

Scenario: #1
	You are running awk using following command line..
cr-734636-a$ gawk -f swaplns.awk

In this case, after bunch of command line & other processing we 
finally land in a function called 'nextfile' in io.c from gawk source. 
This function contains a for loop that is supposed to run from 1 to 
some variable. It looks like starting value is 1 to stop over argv[0] 
which is going to contain name that was used to launch the binary( 
'gawk' in this case ). When gawk is being run as in scenarion #1, 
variable in for loop evaluates to 1. so loop is not executed & awk 
behaves as if no filename was passed to it. It opens stdin & waits 
for input. This leads me to believe that command line argument 
parsing done by awk is for some reason toast on jensen. I 
unfortunately will not have much time for next few days, but if there 
are any C gurus among us, I would dearly love to get some help in 
resolving this issue. It's extremly irritating to have to do 'make 
config' & answer 300 questions to be able to build kernel instead of 
using 'make menuconfig' which uses awk :(

--Rajiv