diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk-3.1.5-core.patch b/package/gawk/gawk-3.1.5-core.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..17cd188c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk-3.1.5-core.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+fix an ugly core on a simple script
+
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-08/msg00040.html
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-08/msg00047.html
+
+--- gawk/io.c
++++ gawk/io.c
+@@ -2480,9 +2480,12 @@
+ {
+ 	struct stat sbuf;
+ 	struct open_hook *oh;
++	int iop_malloced = FALSE;
+ 
+-	if (iop == NULL)
++	if (iop == NULL) {
+ 		emalloc(iop, IOBUF *, sizeof(IOBUF), "iop_alloc");
++		iop_malloced = TRUE;
++	}
+ 	memset(iop, '\0', sizeof(IOBUF));
+ 	iop->flag = 0;
+ 	iop->fd = fd;
+@@ -2495,7 +2498,8 @@
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	if (iop->fd == INVALID_HANDLE) {
+-		free(iop);
++		if (iop_malloced)
++			free(iop);
+ 		return NULL;
+ 	}
+ 	if (isatty(iop->fd))
diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk-3.1.5-gcc4.patch b/package/gawk/gawk-3.1.5-gcc4.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ebadcbe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk-3.1.5-gcc4.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Sat Sep  3 16:03:25 EDT 2005  Kito Danya Dietrich  <kito@gentoo.org>
+
+	* hard-locale.h (hard_locale): Declare xmalloc in global scope rather than
+	function scope which gcc-4.x rejects.
+
+--- gawk-3.1.5/hard-locale.h
++++ gawk-3.1.5/hard-locale.h
+@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
+    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+    Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+ 
++static ptr_t xmalloc PARAMS ((size_t n));
+ 
+ /* Return nonzero if the current CATEGORY locale is hard, i.e. if you
+    can't get away with assuming traditional C or POSIX behavior.  */
+@@ -40,7 +41,6 @@
+       if (strcmp (p, "C") == 0 || strcmp (p, "POSIX") == 0)
+ 	hard = 0;
+ # else
+-      static ptr_t xmalloc PARAMS ((size_t n));
+ 
+       char *locale = xmalloc (strlen (p) + 1);
+       strcpy (locale, p);
diff --git a/package/gawk/gawk.mk b/package/gawk/gawk.mk
index 888482953..9975c38a7 100644
--- a/package/gawk/gawk.mk
+++ b/package/gawk/gawk.mk
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 # gawk
 #
 #############################################################
-GAWK_SOURCE:=gawk-3.1.2.tar.gz
+GAWK_VER:=3.1.5
+GAWK_SOURCE:=gawk-$(GAWK_VER).tar.gz
 GAWK_SITE:=ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk
 GAWK_CAT:=zcat
-GAWK_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/gawk-3.1.2
+GAWK_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/gawk-$(GAWK_VER)
 GAWK_BINARY:=gawk
 GAWK_TARGET_BINARY:=usr/bin/gawk
 
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ gawk-source: $(DL_DIR)/$(GAWK_SOURCE)
 
 $(GAWK_DIR)/.unpacked: $(DL_DIR)/$(GAWK_SOURCE)
 	$(GAWK_CAT) $(DL_DIR)/$(GAWK_SOURCE) | tar -C $(BUILD_DIR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) -
+	toolchain/patch-kernel.sh $(GAWK_DIR) package/gawk gawk\*.patch
 	touch $(GAWK_DIR)/.unpacked
 
 $(GAWK_DIR)/.configured: $(GAWK_DIR)/.unpacked