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<sect1 id="ch-system-gawk" xreflabel="Gawk">
<title>Installing Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>
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<para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &gawk-time;
&diskspace; &gawk-compsize;</screen>

&aa-gawk-down;
&aa-gawk-dep;

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Gawk</title>

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

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

<para>Compile the package:</para>

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

<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
following command will do so:</para>

<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>

<para>And install the package:</para>

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

</sect2>

&aa-gawk-shortdesc;
&aa-gawk-desc;

</sect1>