6.20. Installing Gawk-3.1.3

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  17 MB

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

6.20.2.

6.20.3. Gawk Installation Dependencies

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

6.20.4.

6.20.5. Installation of Gawk

First apply a patch to fix the following issues:

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

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