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The gawk Portfile 54358 2009-07-25 10:15:06Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: gawk
Version: 3.1.7
Category: lang
Maintainers: gmail.com:mschamschula openmaintainer
Platform: darwin
Master Sites: gnu
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
Description: The GNU awk utility.
use_bzip2 yes
use_parallel_build yes

Long Description: The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code. It is a free, extended version of awk.

Checksums: md5 674cc5875714315c490b26293d36dfcf sha1 77dfacb793d579fa6830152d943096bc4362a465 rmd160 f35c04e947357404d410d62df87df9d6a88079de

depends_lib port:libiconv port:gettext

configure.args --with-libiconv-prefix=${prefix}

test.run yes
test.target check

post-destroot {
delete ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/awk
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/gawk
%  sudo port install gawk  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching gawk
--->  Verifying checksum for gawk
--->  Extracting gawk
--->  Configuring gawk
--->  Building gawk with target all

--->  Staging gawk into destroot

--->  Installing gawk

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using gawk with these commands:

%  man gawk
%  apropos gawk
%  which gawk
%  locate gawk

 Where to find more information: