On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:30:28AM +0200, Mort wrote: > This package is useful when one wants to write C/C++ extensions to gawk. > > There's a bunch of header files available only in the source (while there > is one gawkapi.h in the official gawk package, it is not sufficient for > developers who want to build their own extensions). > http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Internal-File-Ops.html > > It works exactly the same way as linux-headers and > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-source/ (Correct me if I'm wrong). > They exist mainly not for general users, but for developers who want to > build their own modules from scratch. Even though it is relatively > unpopular to build extensions in gawk, you can't assume the source package > is "useless" in any case. Just let you know what this is intended for. [...]
Seems to be an intersting package. Ciao, Oliver
