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@@ -13,35 +13,9 @@ Estimated required disk space: &gawk-compsize;</screen>
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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Gawk</title>
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-<para>First apply a patch to fix the following issues:</para>
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-<itemizedlist>
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-<listitem><para>Gawk's default location for some of its executables is
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-<filename>$prefix/libexec/awk</filename>. This location doesn't comply
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-with the FHS, which never even mentions a directory called
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-<filename>libexec</filename>. The patch makes it possible to pass a
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-<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> switch to the configure script, so that we
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-can use a more appropriate location for the <userinput>grcat</userinput> and
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-<userinput>pwcat</userinput> binaries:
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-<filename>/usr/lib/gawk</filename>.</para></listitem>
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-
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-<listitem><para>Gawk's default data directory is
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-<filename>$prefix/share/awk</filename>. But package-specific
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-directories should be named using the package name and version number
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-(for example: <filename>gawk-7.7.2.</filename>) and not simply the package
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-name, as there may be different versions of a package installed on the system.
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-The patch changes the name of the data directory to the correct
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-<filename>$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>.</para></listitem>
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-
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-<listitem><para>The patch also ensures that this data directory, including its
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-contents, is removed on a <emphasis>make uninstall</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
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-</itemizedlist>
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-
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-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-patch;</userinput></screen>
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-
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-<para>Now prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>
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-
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-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gawk</userinput></screen>
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+<para>Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>
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+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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