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Summary: added info and link to Mike Brennan's mawk-2 and deleted some error messages that seemed out of place.
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< The **mawk** package provides a very fast awk implementation by Mike Brennan based on a byte code interpreter. It is currently maintained by Thomas E. Dickey. [[http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html|mawk homepage]]
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> The **mawk** package provides a very fast awk implementation by Mike Brennan[1] based on a byte code interpreter. It is currently maintained by Thomas E. Dickey. [[http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html|mawk homepage]]
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< == Errors during compilation of the mawk interpreter
< ==== configure: error: Cannot find a math library. You need to set MATHLIB in config.user
< This error affects older versions of mawk, and may occur during compilation of the awk interpreter. It is necessary to add the following line to the config.user file, in order to suppress this error:
< MATHLIB=''
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> [1] Brennan still maintains his own version of **mawk** called **mawk-2** which differs from the current version developed by Dickey; it can be found at https://github.com/mikebrennan000/mawk-2
The mawk package provides a very fast awk implementation by Mike Brennan[1] based on a byte code interpreter. It is currently maintained by Thomas E. Dickey. mawk homepage
mawk aims to be compatible with the awk language, as described in the book "The AWK Programming Language" published in 1988, and therefore should be compatible with bwk. It also adds POSIX conformance and a few extensions.
See also: libmawk
[1] Brennan still maintains his own version of mawk called mawk-2 which differs from the current version developed by Dickey; it can be found at https://github.com/mikebrennan000/mawk-2
