Approximate build time: 0.2 SBU Required disk space: 17 MB |
Official download location for Gawk (3.1.3):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/
For its installation Gawk depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Prepare Gawk for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools |
Compile the package:
make |
As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Gawk test suite anyway, the following command will do so:
make check |
And install it:
make install |
The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Gawk in Chapter 6.