B.2.2 Additional Configuration Options

There are several additional options you may use on the configure command line when compiling gawk from scratch, including:

--disable-lint

Disable all lint checking within gawk. The ‘--lint’ and ‘--lint-old’ options (see section Command-Line Options) are accepted, but silently do nothing. Similarly, setting the LINT variable (see section Built-in Variables That Control awk) has no effect on the running awk program.

When used with GCC’s automatic dead-code-elimination, this option cuts almost 200K bytes off the size of the gawk executable on GNU/Linux x86 systems. Results on other systems and with other compilers are likely to vary. Using this option may bring you some slight performance improvement.

Using this option will cause some of the tests in the test suite to fail. This option may be removed at a later date.

--disable-nls

Disable all message-translation facilities. This is usually not desirable, but it may bring you some slight performance improvement.

--with-whiny-user-strftime

Force use of the included version of the strftime() function for deficient systems.

Use the command ‘./configure --help’ to see the full list of options that configure supplies.