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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Gawk</title>
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-<para>Before installing the Gawk package you have to apply a patch,
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-which fixes the following issues:</para>
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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 libexecdir is <filename
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-class="directory">$prefix/libexecdir/awk</filename>. This location doesn't
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-comply with FHS (which never mentions a directory called
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-libexecdir).</para></listitem>
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-
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-<listitem><para>The patch allows us to pass
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-<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> to the configure script (without gawk
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-tacking on /awk to the end), so that we can use a more appropriate location
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-for gawk's libexecdir (<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> in
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-the book).</para></listitem>
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-
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-<listitem><para>The default data directory for gawk is <filename
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-class="directory">$prefix/share/awk</filename>. A package specific
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-directory should be named using the package and version (like
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-gawk-&gawk-version; instead of awk) because there may be more than one awk
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-interpreter on a system (and more than one version of gawk). The patch changes
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-this to <filename class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>
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-to be more correct.</para></listitem>
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-
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-<listitem><para>The patch ensures that this directory (<filename
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-class="directory">$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>) is removed along
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-with its contents on a make uninstall.</para></listitem>
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+<listitem><para>Gawk's default location for some of its executables is
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+<filename>$prefix/libexec/awk</filename>. This location doesn't comply
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+with the FHS, which never even mentions a directory called
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+<filename>libexec</filename>. The patch makes it possible to pass a
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+<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> switch to the configure script, so that we
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+can use a more appropriate location for the <userinput>grcat</userinput> and
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+<userinput>pwcat</userinput> binaries:
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+<filename>/usr/bin</filename>.</para></listitem>
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+
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+<listitem><para>Gawk's default data directory is
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+<filename>$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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<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-patch;</userinput></screen>
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