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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6  %general-entities;
7  %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-gawk" role="wrap">
11  <?dbhtml filename="gawk.html"?>
12
13  <title>Gawk-&gawk-version;</title>
14
15  <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk">
16    <primary sortas="a-Gawk">Gawk</primary>
17  </indexterm>
18
19  <sect2 role="package">
20    <title/>
21
22    <para>The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text
23    files.</para>
24
25    <segmentedlist>
26      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
27      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
28
29      <seglistitem>
30        <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31        <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
32      </seglistitem>
33    </segmentedlist>
34
35    <segmentedlist>
36      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
37
38      <seglistitem>
39        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
40        Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg>
41      </seglistitem>
42    </segmentedlist>
43
44  </sect2>
45
46  <sect2 role="installation">
47    <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
48
49    <para os="a">Patch Gawk to fix a bug which causes it to
50    segfault when invoked on a non-existent file:</para>
51
52<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gawk-segfault-patch;</userinput></screen>
53
54    <para os="c">Prepare Gawk for compilation:</para>
55
56<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
57
58    <para os="e">Compile the package:</para>
59
60<screen os="f"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
61
62    <para os="g">To test the results, issue:
63    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
64
65    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
66
67<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
68
69  </sect2>
70
71  <sect2 id="contents-gawk" role="content">
72    <title>Contents of Gawk</title>
73
74    <segmentedlist>
75      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
76
77      <seglistitem>
78        <seg>awk (link to gawk), gawk, gawk-&gawk-version;, grcat, igawk,
79        pgawk, pgawk-&gawk-version;, and pwcat</seg>
80      </seglistitem>
81    </segmentedlist>
82
83    <variablelist>
84      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
85      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
86      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
87
88      <varlistentry id="awk">
89        <term><command>awk</command></term>
90        <listitem>
91          <para>A link to <command>gawk</command></para>
92          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk awk">
93            <primary sortas="b-awk">awk</primary>
94          </indexterm>
95        </listitem>
96      </varlistentry>
97
98      <varlistentry id="gawk">
99        <term><command>gawk</command></term>
100        <listitem>
101          <para>A program for manipulating text files; it is the GNU
102          implementation of <command>awk</command></para>
103          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk gawk">
104            <primary sortas="b-gawk">gawk</primary>
105          </indexterm>
106        </listitem>
107      </varlistentry>
108
109      <varlistentry id="gawk-version">
110        <term><command>gawk-&gawk-version;</command></term>
111          <listitem>
112          <para>A hard link to <command>gawk</command></para>
113          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk gawk-version">
114            <primary sortas="b-gawk-&gawk-version;">gawk-&gawk-version;</primary>
115          </indexterm>
116        </listitem>
117      </varlistentry>
118
119      <varlistentry id="grcat">
120        <term><command>grcat</command></term>
121        <listitem>
122          <para>Dumps the group database <filename>/etc/group</filename></para>
123          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk grcat">
124            <primary sortas="b-grcat">grcat</primary>
125          </indexterm>
126        </listitem>
127      </varlistentry>
128
129      <varlistentry id="igawk">
130        <term><command>igawk</command></term>
131        <listitem>
132          <para>Gives <command>gawk</command> the ability to include files</para>
133          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk igawk">
134            <primary sortas="b-igawk">igawk</primary>
135          </indexterm>
136        </listitem>
137      </varlistentry>
138
139      <varlistentry id="pgawk">
140        <term><command>pgawk</command></term>
141        <listitem>
142          <para>The profiling version of <command>gawk</command></para>
143          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pgawk">
144            <primary sortas="b-pgawk">pgawk</primary>
145          </indexterm>
146        </listitem>
147      </varlistentry>
148
149      <varlistentry id="pgawk-version">
150        <term><command>pgawk-&gawk-version;</command></term>
151        <listitem>
152          <para>Hard link to <command>pgawk</command></para>
153          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pgawk-version">
154            <primary sortas="b-pgawk-&gawk-version;">pgawk-&gawk-version;</primary>
155          </indexterm>
156        </listitem>
157      </varlistentry>
158
159      <varlistentry id="pwcat">
160        <term><command>pwcat</command></term>
161        <listitem>
162          <para>Dumps the password database <filename>/etc/passwd</filename></para>
163          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gawk pwcat">
164            <primary sortas="b-pwcat">pwcat</primary>
165          </indexterm>
166        </listitem>
167      </varlistentry>
168
169    </variablelist>
170
171  </sect2>
172
173</sect1>
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