lfs-book/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Gawk</title>

<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
install it. Issue the following command to apply the patch:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-&gawk-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>

<para>This patch alters the code that determines the location of the
libexec directory. The patch will allow us to override it by passing
<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script.</para>

<para>Prepare Gawk to be compiled:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Finish installing the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

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