Handling update-alternatives

[John Lenton]

On 5 August 2016 at 10:20, Dan Watkins <daniel.watkins at canonical.com> wrote:
> Something I'm snapping tries to run `awk`, which isn't included in the
> ubuntu-core snap

awk *is* in the ubuntu-core snap. What's happening is bug #1580018:
you've used update-alternatives on the host to switch to an awk that
is different to the one in core. If you can live with mawk instead of
gawk on the host (at least during the build) things will work.