B.6 Summary

• The gawk distribution is available from the GNU Project’s main distribution site, ftp.gnu.org. The canonical build recipe is:

  wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-4.1.4.tar.gz
  tar -xvpzf gawk-4.1.4.tar.gz
  cd gawk-4.1.4
  ./configure && make && make check
  

• gawk may be built on non-POSIX systems as well. The currently supported systems are MS-Windows using MSYS, MinGW, and Cygwin, OS/2 using EMX, and both Vax/VMS and OpenVMS. Instructions for each system are included in this appendix.
• Bug reports should be sent via email to bug-gawk@gnu.org. Bug reports should be in English and should include the version of gawk, how it was compiled, and a short program and data file that demonstrate the problem.
• There are a number of other freely available awk implementations. Many are POSIX-compliant; others are less so.