This package requires its patch to be applied before you can install it. Make sure it's unpacked before running the installation commands. Warning: do NOT run make uninstall on this package if you apply the patch to change the libexec directory definition. The uninstall rule in the Makefile file runs a command like rm -rf <libexecdir>/* Since we change the libexec directory to /usr/bin it'll run rm -rf /usr/bin/* Install Gawk by running the following commands: patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-&gawk-patch-version;.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin && make && make install