8.59. Gawk-5.2.2

The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.

Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU

Required disk space: 46 MB

8.59.1. Installation of Gawk

First, ensure some unneeded files are not installed:

sed -i 's/extras//' Makefile.in

Prepare Gawk for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

To test the results, issue:

chown -Rv tester .
su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"

Install the package:

make LN='ln -f' install

The meaning of the overridden make variable:

LN='ln -f': This variable ensures that the previous hard link installed in Section 6.9, “Gawk-5.2.2” is updated here.

The installation process already created awk as a symlink to gawk, create its man page as a symlink as well:

ln -sv gawk.1 /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1

If desired, install the documentation:

mkdir -pv                                   /usr/share/doc/gawk-5.2.2
cp    -v doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} /usr/share/doc/gawk-5.2.2

8.59.2. Contents of Gawk

Installed programs: awk (link to gawk), gawk, and gawk-5.2.2

Installed libraries: filefuncs.so, fnmatch.so, fork.so, inplace.so, intdiv.so, ordchr.so, readdir.so, readfile.so, revoutput.so, revtwoway.so, rwarray.so, and time.so (all in /usr/lib/gawk)

Installed directories: /usr/lib/gawk, /usr/libexec/awk, /usr/share/awk, and /usr/share/doc/gawk-5.2.2

Short Descriptions

awk	A link to gawk
gawk	A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU implementation of awk
gawk-5.2.2	A hard link to gawk

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8.59. Gawk-5.2.2

8.59.1. Installation of Gawk

8.59.2. Contents of Gawk

Short Descriptions