%general-entities; ]> GMP-&gmp-version; GMP cross-tools <para>GMP is a library for arithmetic on arbitrary precision integers, rational numbers, and floating-point numbers.</para> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of GMP Prepare GMP for compilation: CPPFLAGS=-fexceptions ./configure \ --prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools Compile the package: make Some versions of GCC (notably 4.3.2 which ships with Debian 5) will compile GMP without errors but in a subtly broken way. To ensure GMP is compiled and functioning correctly, optionally run the test suite: make check Install the package: make install Contents of GMP Installed Libraries libgmp.[a,so] Short Descriptions libgmp Contains the definitions for GNU multiple precision functions. libgmp