Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU Estimated required disk space: 17 MB |
(Last checked against version 3.1.3.)
Gawk is an awk implementation that is used to manipulate text files.
Installed programs: awk, gawk, gawk-3.1.3, grcat, igawk, pgawk, pgawk-3.1.3 and pwcat
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Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch, which fixes the following issues:
Gawk's default location for libexecdir is $prefix/libexecdir/awk. This location doesn't comply with FHS (which never mentions a directory called libexecdir).
The patch allows us to pass --libexecdir to the configure script (without gawk tacking on /awk to the end), so that we can use a more appropriate location for gawk's libexecdir (/usr/bin in the book).
The default data directory for gawk is $prefix/share/awk. A package specific directory should be named using the package and version (like gawk-3.1.3 instead of awk) because there may be more than one awk interpreter on a system (and more than one version of gawk). The patch changes this to $prefix/share/gawk-3.1.3 to be more correct.
The patch ensures that this directory ($prefix/share/gawk-3.1.3) is removed along with its contents 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 |