Building and Using gawk on VMS POSIX

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 file system. 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 will construct files `config.h' and `Makefile' out of templates, using a script to make the C compiler fit configure's expectations. The second command will compile and link gawk using the C compiler directly; ignore any warnings from make about being unable to redefine CC. configure will take 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 will work like any other shell utility. Unlike the normal VMS port of gawk, no special command line manipulation is needed in the VMS POSIX environment.

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