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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Gawk</title>
+<para>Patch Gawk to fix a bug which causes it to segfault when invoked on a
+non-existent file:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-segfault-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
+<para>The configure script doesn't detect some functionality correctly. The
+following commands correct this problem:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>echo "#define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1" >> config.h
+echo "#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1" >> config.h</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>