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@@ -4,16 +4,25 @@ 0. You first need to install GMP. See <http://www.swox.com/gmp/>. MPFR requires GMP version 4.1 or later. -1. In the MPFR build directory, to detect your system, type: +1. Extract the files from the archive. + +2. It is strongly advised to apply the latest patches (if this has + not been done yet), e.g. + wget http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.3.0/patches + patch -N -Z -p1 < patches + or + curl http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.3.0/patches | patch -N -Z -p1 + +3. In the MPFR directory, to detect your system, type: ./configure -2. To build the library, type: +4. To build the library, type: make -3. To check the built library (runs the test files), type: +5. To check the built library (runs the test files), type: make check -4. To install it (default "/usr/local" | see "--prefix" option), type: +6. To install it (default "/usr/local" | see "--prefix" option), type: make install @@ -67,6 +76,11 @@ Run "./configure --help" to see the other options (autoconf default options). In case of problem ================== + If you can, go to the MPFR page for this version, where you could + find something to solve the problem, or to see if it has already + been reported: + http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.3.0/ + If the "configure" fails, please check that the C compiler and its options are the same as those for the GMP build (specially the ABI). You can see the latter with the following: @@ -100,7 +114,7 @@ In case of problem the version of GMP and MPFR used and a description of the problem encountered. Please send us also a log of the installation (config.log). - Note that even if you can build MPFR with a C++ compiler you can't run + Note that even if you can build MPFR with a C++ compiler, you can't run the test suite: C and C++ are not the same language! You should use a C compiler instead. |