Thanks for the link to the Google code repo. I'm currently on x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04. Building was not so smooth, several files are missing for the Power 64 port.
I did as best I could to build things. I suppose my expectations aren't what they should be. I was looking for the usual configure && make && make install experience, and it wasn't there. I like to compile gawk with multiple compilers and thought I'd try ken's, but it wasn't clear to me which o.out file to use, or how to install it such that it will get the system's include files and libraries. If this is easy to do, I'd appreciate hearing how. If not, then I'm not going to worry about it. :-) Much thanks, Arnold