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1 <sect1 id="ch-system-gawk" xreflabel="Gawk">
2 <title>Installing Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>
3 <?dbhtml filename="gawk.html" dir="chapter06"?>
5 <para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.</para>
7 <screen>&buildtime; &gawk-time;
8 &diskspace; &gawk-compsize;</screen>
10 &aa-gawk-down;
11 &aa-gawk-dep;
13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
15 <sect2>
16 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
18 <para>Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>
20 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
22 <para>Compile the package:</para>
24 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
26 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
27 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
28 following command will do so:</para>
30 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
32 <para>And install the package:</para>
34 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
36 </sect2>
38 &aa-gawk-shortdesc;
39 &aa-gawk-desc;
41 </sect1>