GNU Info

(gawk.info)Additional Configuration Options

---

Next: Configuration Philosophy Prev: Quick Installation Up: Unix Installation

---

Enter node , (file) or (file)node

Additional Configuration Options
--------------------------------

   There are several additional options you may use on the `configure'
command line when compiling `gawk' from scratch.

`--enable-portals'
     This option causes `gawk' to treat pathnames that begin with `/p'
     as BSD portal files when doing two-way I/O with the `|&' operator
     (Note: Using `gawk' with BSD Portals.).

`--with-included-gettext'
     Use the version of the `gettext' library that comes with `gawk'.
     This option should be used on systems that do _not_ use version 2
     (or later) of the GNU C library.  All known modern GNU/Linux
     systems use Glibc 2.  Use this option on any other system.

`--disable-nls'
     Disable all message translation facilities.  This is usually not
     desirable, but it may bring you some slight performance
     improvement.  You should also use this option if
     `--with-included-gettext' doesn't work on your system.