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diff --git a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml index d426e38a3..2c5d72266 100644 --- a/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml @@ -3,15 +3,36 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of Gawk</title> -<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can -install it:</para> +<para>Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch to it +which fixes the following issues:</para> + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para>Gawk's default location for libexecdir is <filename +class="directory">$prefix/libexecdir/awk</filename>. This location doesn't +comply with FHS (FHS never mentions a directory called +libexecdir).</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>The patch allows us to pass +<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script (without gawk +tacking on /awk to the end), so that we can use a more appropriate location +for gawk's libexecdir (<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> in +the book).</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>The default data directory for gawk is <filename +class="directory">$prefix/share/awk</filename>. A package specific +directory should be named after the package and the version (gawk-3.1.1 +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 +<filename class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename> to be more +correct.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>The patch ensures that this directory (<filename +class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename>) is removed along +with its contents on a make uninstall.</para></listitem> +</itemizedlist> <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-&gawk-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para> -<para>This patch alters the code that determines the location of the -libexec directory. The patch will allow us to override it by passing -<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script.</para> - <para>Prepare Gawk to be compiled:</para> <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para> |