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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>

<sect1 id="ch-system-gawk" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="gawk.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>gawk</productname>
    <productnumber>&gawk-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&gawk-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk">
    <primary sortas="a-Gawk">Gawk</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&gawk-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&gawk-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gawk</title>

    <para>First, ensure some unneeded files are not installed:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/extras//' Makefile.in</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .
su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make LN='ln -f' install</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the overridden make variable:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><envar>LN='ln -f'</envar></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>This variable ensures that the previous hard link installed
           in <xref linkend='ch-tools-gawk'/> is updated here.</para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>

    <para>The installation process already created <command>awk</command>
    as a symlink to <command>gawk</command>, create its man page as a
    symlink as well:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv gawk.1 /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1</userinput></screen>

    <para>If desired, install the documentation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -pv                                   /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version;
cp    -v doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-gawk" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Gawk</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>awk (link to gawk), gawk, and gawk-&gawk-version;</seg>
        <seg>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)</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/gawk, /usr/libexec/awk, /usr/share/awk, and
        /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="awk">
        <term><command>awk</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A link to <command>gawk</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk awk">
            <primary sortas="b-awk">awk</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gawk">
        <term><command>gawk</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU
          implementation of <command>awk</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk gawk">
            <primary sortas="b-gawk">gawk</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gawk-version">
        <term><command>gawk-&gawk-version;</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A hard link to <command>gawk</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk gawk-version">
            <primary sortas="b-gawk-&gawk-version;">gawk-&gawk-version;</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>