6.20. Installing Gawk-3.1.3

6.20.1. Contents of Gawk

Gawk is an awk implementation that is used to manipulate text files.

Installed programs: awk (link to gawk), gawk, gawk-3.1.3, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.3 and pwcat

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6.20.3. Gawk Installation Dependencies

Gawk depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

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6.20.5. Installation of Gawk

First apply a patch to fix the following issues:

• Gawk's default location for some of its executables is $prefix/libexec/awk. This location doesn't comply with the FHS, which never even mentions a directory called libexec. The patch makes it possible to pass a --libexecdir switch to the configure script, so that we can use a more appropriate location for the grcat and pwcat binaries: /usr/bin.

• Gawk's default data directory is $prefix/share/awk. But package-specific directories should be named using the package name and version number (for example: gawk-7.7.2.) and not simply the package name, as there may be different versions of a package installed on the system. The patch changes the name of the data directory to the correct $prefix/share/gawk-3.1.3.

• The patch also ensures that this data directory, including its contents, is removed on a make uninstall.

patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-3.1.3-libexecdir.patch

Now prepare Gawk for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin

Compile the package:

make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install