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B.2.5 Compiling from Git
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Building 'gawk' directly from the development source control repository
is possible, but not recommended for everyday users, as the code may not
be as stable as released versions are.  If you really do want to do
that, here are the steps:

     git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gawk.git
     cd gawk
     ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make && make check