%general-entities; ]> gawk &gawk-version;

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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: rm -f /usr/bin/gawk-&gawk-version; make install rm -f /usr/bin/gawk-&gawk-version; The building system will not recreate the hard link gawk-&gawk-version; if it already exists. Remove it to ensure that the previous hard link installed in 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-&gawk-version; cp -v doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version; Installed programs Installed libraries Installed directories awk (link to gawk), gawk, and gawk-&gawk-version; 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) /usr/lib/gawk, /usr/libexec/awk, /usr/share/awk, and /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version; Short Descriptions awk A link to gawk awk gawk A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU implementation of awk gawk gawk-&gawk-version; A hard link to gawk gawk-&gawk-version;