diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk-3.1.5/gawk-3.1.5_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk-3.1.5/gawk-3.1.5_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
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index 0000000..b3e7987
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk-3.1.5/gawk-3.1.5_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+automake 1.12 has depricated automatic de-ANSI-fication support
+
+this patch avoids these kinds of errors:
+
+| configure.ac:127: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed
+| /srv/home/nitin/builds/build-gcc47/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.12/protos.m4:12: AM_C_PROTOTYPES is expanded from...
+| configure.ac:127: the top level
+| autom4te: m4 failed with exit status: 1
+...
+| Makefile.am:27: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed
+
+Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
+2012/05/04
+
+Index: gawk-3.1.5/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- gawk-3.1.5.orig/configure.ac
++++ gawk-3.1.5/configure.ac
+@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ fi
+ 
+ dnl check for C compiler for automake
+ AM_PROG_CC_STDC
+-AM_C_PROTOTYPES
+ 
+ dnl Cygwin doesn't like to get libs with full paths
+ dnl since that overrides linking against DLLs.
+Index: gawk-3.1.5/Makefile.am
+===================================================================
+--- gawk-3.1.5.orig/Makefile.am
++++ gawk-3.1.5/Makefile.am
+@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
+ ## process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
+ 
+ # Automatic de-ANSI-fication if needed, make .bz2 files also.
+-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = ansi2knr dist-bzip2
++AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = dist-bzip2
+ 
+ # This undocumented variable insures that aclocal runs
+ # correctly after changing configure.ac
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk-4.1.3/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk-4.1.3/run-ptest
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index 0000000..d23f0bf
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+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk-4.1.3/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd test
+for i in `grep -vE "@|^$|#|Gt-dummy" Maketests |awk -F: '{print $1}'`; \
+  do LC_ALL=${GAWKLOCALE:-C} LANG=${GAWKLOCALE:-C} srcdir=`pwd` AWK=gawk CMP=cmp \
+  make -f Maketests $i >$i.tmp 2>&1; \
+  grep -q "Error" $i.tmp; \
+  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "FAIL: $i"; \
+  else echo "PASS: $i"; rm -f $i.tmp; fi; \
+done
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_3.1.5.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_3.1.5.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7af4a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_3.1.5.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+SUMMARY = "GNU awk text processing utility"
+DESCRIPTION = "The GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. \
+Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do \
+quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs."
+HOMEPAGE = "www.gnu.org/software/gawk"
+BUGTRACKER  = "bug-gawk@gnu.org"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+
+# gawk <= 3.1.5: GPLv2
+# gawk >= 3.1.6: GPLv3
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
+
+RDEPENDS_gawk += "gawk-common"
+RDEPENDS_pgawk += "gawk-common"
+PR = "r2"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.gz \
+	file://gawk-3.1.5_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4760325489479cac17fe0114b8f62f30"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "463dcb9d0ca398b1d4f5a332f6cd9cec56441265fca616f2ea1b44d459e9f0f8"
+
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives
+
+PACKAGES += "gawk-common pgawk"
+
+FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/gawk* ${bindir}/igawk"
+FILES_gawk-common += "${datadir}/awk/* ${libdir}/gawk/awk/*"
+FILES_pgawk = "${bindir}/pgawk*"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/gawk/awk/.debug"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "awk"
+ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[awk] = "${bindir}/gawk"
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+
+CFLAGS += "-D PROTOTYPES"
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# remove the link since we don't package it
+	rm ${D}${bindir}/awk
+}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_4.1.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_4.1.3.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1a88e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_4.1.3.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+SUMMARY = "GNU awk text processing utility"
+DESCRIPTION = "The GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. \
+Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do \
+quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/"
+BUGTRACKER  = "bug-gawk@gnu.org"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+
+# gawk <= 3.1.5: GPLv2
+# gawk >= 3.1.6: GPLv3
+LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
+
+DEPENDS += "readline"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[mpfr] = "--with-mpfr,--without-mpfr, mpfr"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "55d37f4069502677f25d1340df8eec97"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "524effa5b9ecd4ed940f2581c5d3c1df4e4bd7e6f768aa033c1916f47dfc6e29"
+
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/awk"
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/${BPN}/*.la"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libexecdir}/awk/.debug"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "awk"
+ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[awk] = "${bindir}/gawk"
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# remove the link since we don't package it
+	rm ${D}${bindir}/awk
+}
+
+inherit ptest
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+	mkdir ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test
+	for i in `grep -vE "@|^$|#|Gt-dummy" ${S}/test/Maketests |awk -F: '{print $1}'` Maketests; \
+	  do cp ${S}/test/$i* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test; \
+	done
+}