[PD] "mixed" cvs not compiling on OSX?

[carmen]

> >you need to use gawk, not mawk or awk .
> 
> ...ok, so I changed all references of "awk" to gawk (there was no 
> "mawk") in Makefile.common...but get the exact same message...

oki..i had quite a similar error message, and the gawk switch solved it..perhaps an upgrade of the developer tools to something 3.3 based would help, otherwise maybe someone else has some hints...