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