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# Installing Gawk-3.1.3

    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.

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## Installation of Gawk

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

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The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Gawk in Chapter 6.

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