| 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263 | <sect1 id="ch06-gawk"><title>Installing Gawk-&gawk-version;</title><?dbhtml filename="gawk.html" dir="chapter06"?><screen>Estimated build time:           &gawk-time;Estimated required disk space:  &gawk-compsize;</screen>&aa-gawk-shortdesc;&aa-gawk-dep;<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2><sect2><title>Installation of Gawk</title><para>First apply a patch to fix the following issues:</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Gawk's default location for some of its executables is<filename>$prefix/libexec/awk</filename>. This location doesn't complywith the FHS, which never even mentions a directory called<filename>libexec</filename>. The patch makes it possible to pass a<emphasis>--libexecdir</emphasis> switch to the configure script, so that wecan use a more appropriate location for the <userinput>grcat</userinput> and<userinput>pwcat</userinput> binaries:<filename>/usr/lib/gawk</filename>.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Gawk's default data directory is<filename>$prefix/share/awk</filename>. But package-specificdirectories should be named using the package name and version number(for example: <filename>gawk-7.7.2.</filename>) and not simply the packagename, as there may be different versions of a package installed on the system.The patch changes the name of the data directory to the correct<filename>$prefix/share/gawk-&gawk-version;</filename>.</para></listitem><listitem><para>The patch also ensures that this data directory, including itscontents, is removed on a <emphasis>make uninstall</emphasis>.</para></listitem></itemizedlist><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-patch;</userinput></screen><para>Now prepare Gawk for compilation:</para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gawk</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 ofchecks 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></sect1>
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