development/mawk: Fix README.

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mawk (fast awk implementation)
mawk (Mike's AWK) is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. It's
a very fast AWK implementation based on a bytecode interpreter. Originally
written by Mike Brennan, mawk is currently maintained by Thomas E. Dickey.
mawk (Mike's AWK) is an interpreter for the AWK Programming
Language. It's a very fast AWK implementation based on a bytecode
interpreter. Originally written by Mike Brennan, mawk is currently
maintained by Thomas E. Dickey.
The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text
retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with
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If you require the glibc engine, export BUILTIN_REGEX=no in the script's
environment.
The default version in the .info file is 1.3.4, which is a stable release
from 2009. If you'd like to (or need to) build one of the newer 'snapshot'
releases, get the source from ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/mawk/
and export VERSION in the environment. Notice the filenames look like
e.g. "mawk-1.3.4-20171017.tgz". Slackware version numbers can't contain
the hyphen, so use an underscore instead. Example:
The default version in the .info file is 1.3.4, which is a stable
release from 2009. If you'd like to (or need to) build one of the newer
'snapshot' releases, get the source from:
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/mawk/
...and export VERSION in the environment. Notice the filenames look
like e.g. "mawk-1.3.4-20171017.tgz". Slackware version numbers can't
contain the hyphen, so use an underscore instead. Example:
# export "VERSION=1.3.4_20171017"