For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Gawk-3.1.3 in Chapter 6.
Gawk (3.1.3):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/
Gawk Libexecdir Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gawk-3.1.3-libexecdir.patch
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
gawk is a program for manipulating text files. It is the GNU implementation of awk.
grcat dumps the group database /etc/group.
igawk gives gawk the ability to include files.
pgawk is the profiling version of gawk.
pwcat dumps the password database /etc/passwd.
Gawk depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.