source: BOOK/final-system/common/mpfr.xml@ 9edf96a

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<sect1 id="ch-system-mpfr" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="mpfr.html"?>

  <title>MPFR-&mpfr-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-mpfr">
    <primary sortas="a-MPFR">MPFR</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
    computations with correct rounding.</para>

  </sect2>

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

    <para os="p1">Apply a patch with upstream fixes:</para>

<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&mpfr-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>

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

<screen os="b"><userinput>CC="gcc -isystem /usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/lib:/lib" \
./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --with-gmp=/usr \
    --docdir=/usr/share/doc/mpfr-&mpfr-version;</userinput></screen>

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

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

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

<screen os="f"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>

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

<screen os="h"><userinput>make install
make install-html</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-mpfr" role="content">
    <title>Contents of MPFR</title>

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>libmpfr.[a,so]</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/mpfr-&mpfr-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="libmpfr">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmpfr</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>The Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-mpfr libmpfr">
            <primary sortas="c-libmpfr">libmpfr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

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