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Last change on this file since c75433a was c75433a, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 15 years ago

Added: MPFR Branch Update Patch

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-mpfr" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="mpfr.html"?>
10
11  <title>MPFR-&mpfr-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-mpfr">
14    <primary sortas="a-MPFR">MPFR</primary>
15    <secondary>temporary system</secondary>
16  </indexterm>
17
18  <sect2 role="package">
19    <title/>
20
21    <para>The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
22    computations with correct rounding.</para>
23
24  </sect2>
25
26  <sect2 role="installation">
27    <title>Installation of MPFR</title>
28
29    <para os="p1">The following patch contains a number of updates to the
30    &mpfr-version; branch by the MPFR developers:</para>
31
32<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&mpfr-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
33
34    <para os="a">Prepare MPFR for compilation:</para>
35
36<screen os="b"><userinput>CC="gcc -isystem /usr/include" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath-link,/lib" \
37    ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
38
39    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
40
41<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
42
43    <important os="e">
44      <para>The test suite for MPFR is considered
45      critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
46    </important>
47
48    <para os="f">Test the results:</para>
49
50<screen os="g"><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
51
52    <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
53
54<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
55
56  </sect2>
57
58  <sect2 id="contents-mpfr" role="content">
59    <title>Contents of MPFR</title>
60
61    <segmentedlist>
62      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
63
64      <seglistitem>
65        <seg>libmpfr.[a,so]</seg>
66      </seglistitem>
67    </segmentedlist>
68
69    <variablelist>
70      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
71      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
72      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
73
74      <varlistentry id="libmpfr">
75        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmpfr</filename></term>
76        <listitem>
77          <para>The Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library.</para>
78          <indexterm zone="ch-system-mpfr libmpfr">
79            <primary sortas="b-libmpfr">libmpfr</primary>
80          </indexterm>
81        </listitem>
82      </varlistentry>
83
84    </variablelist>
85
86  </sect2>
87
88</sect1>
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