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Installing `gawk' on BeOS
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   Since BeOS DR9, all the tools that you should need to build `gawk'
are included with BeOS. The process is basically identical to the Unix
process of running `configure' and then `make'. Full instructions are
given below.

   You can compile `gawk' under BeOS by extracting the standard sources
and running `configure'. You _must_ specify the location prefix for the
installation directory. For BeOS DR9 and beyond, the best directory to
use is `/boot/home/config', so the `configure' command is:

     configure --prefix=/boot/home/config

   This installs the compiled application into `/boot/home/config/bin',
which is already specified in the standard `PATH'.

   Once the configuration process is completed, you can run `make', and
then `make install':

     $ make
     ...
     $ make install

   BeOS uses `bash' as its shell; thus, you use `gawk' the same way you
would under Unix.  If these steps do not work, please send in a bug
report (Note: Reporting Problems and Bugs.).