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Building and Using `gawk' on VMS POSIX
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   Ignore the instructions above, although `vms/gawk.hlp' should still
be made available in a help library.  The source tree should be unpacked
into a container file subsystem rather than into the ordinary VMS
filesystem.  Make sure that the two scripts, `configure' and
`vms/posix-cc.sh', are executable; use `chmod +x' on them if necessary.
Then execute the following two commands:

     psx> CC=vms/posix-cc.sh configure
     psx> make CC=c89 gawk

The first command constructs files `config.h' and `Makefile' out of
templates, using a script to make the C compiler fit `configure''s
expectations.  The second command compiles and links `gawk' using the C
compiler directly; ignore any warnings from `make' about being unable
to redefine `CC'.  `configure' takes a very long time to execute, but
at least it provides incremental feedback as it runs.

   This has been tested with VAX/VMS V6.2, VMS POSIX V2.0, and DEC C
V5.2.

   Once built, `gawk' works like any other shell utility.  Unlike the
normal VMS port of `gawk', no special command-line manipulation is
needed in the VMS POSIX environment.