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 B.2.1 Compiling `gawk' for Unix-like Systems
 --------------------------------------------
 
 The normal installation steps should work on all modern commercial
 Unix-derived systems, GNU/Linux, BSD-based systems, and the Cygwin
 environment for MS-Windows.
 
    After you have extracted the `gawk' distribution, `cd' to
 `gawk-4.0.2'.  Like most GNU software, `gawk' is configured
 automatically for your system by running the `configure' program.  This
 program is a Bourne shell script that is generated automatically using
 GNU `autoconf'.  (The `autoconf' software is described fully starting
 with  (Autoconf)Top autoconf,Autoconf--Generating Automatic
 Configuration Scripts.)
 
    To configure `gawk', simply run `configure':
 
      sh ./configure
 
    This produces a `Makefile' and `config.h' tailored to your system.
 The `config.h' file describes various facts about your system.  You
 might want to edit the `Makefile' to change the `CFLAGS' variable,
 which controls the command-line options that are passed to the C
 compiler (such as optimization levels or compiling for debugging).
 
    Alternatively, you can add your own values for most `make' variables
 on the command line, such as `CC' and `CFLAGS', when running
 `configure':
 
      CC=cc CFLAGS=-g sh ./configure
 
 See the file `INSTALL' in the `gawk' distribution for all the details.
 
    After you have run `configure' and possibly edited the `Makefile',
 type:
 
      make
 
 Shortly thereafter, you should have an executable version of `gawk'.
 That's all there is to it!  To verify that `gawk' is working properly,
 run `make check'.  All of the tests should succeed.  If these steps do
 not work, or if any of the tests fail, check the files in the
 `README_d' directory to see if you've found a known problem.  If the
 failure is not described there, please send in a bug report (
 Bugs).
 

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