source: BOOK/final-system/common/mpc.xml@ 2643db23

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<sect1 id="ch-system-mpc" role="wrap">
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  <title>MPC-&mpc-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-mpc">
    <primary sortas="a-MPC">MPC</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>MPC is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with
    arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of MPC</title>

    <para os="a">Prepare MPC for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>CC="gcc -isystem /usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath-link,/lib" \
./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <important os="e">
      <para>The test suite for MPC is considered
      critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
    </important>

    <para os="f">Test the results:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-mpc" role="content">
    <title>Contents of MPC</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>libmpc.[a,so]</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="libmpc">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmpc</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>The Multiple Precision Complex Library.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-mpc libmpc">
            <primary sortas="c-libmpc">libmpc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
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