Jaromír Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> writes:

> If you do regular tree builds, a patch to switch
> to build & install nawk instead of gawk is appended on end of this e-mail.
> Optionally, you might build and install nawk package - the pkg
> is same as the version in tree. Once nawk package is installed,
> backup /usr/bin/awk and replace it with nawk.

If you do it the latter way, keep in mind that /usr/bin/awk will be
"re-replaced" with gawk the very next time you do a build.