source: general/genutils/bc.xml@ 225c1cc

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

<!ENTITY bc-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bc/bc-&bc-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY bc-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bc/bc-&bc-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY bc-md5sum "d44b5dddebd8a7a7309aea6c36fda117">
<!ENTITY bc-size "278 KB">
<!ENTITY bc-buildsize "2.31 MB">
<!ENTITY bc-time "0.04 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="bc" xreflabel="bc-&bc-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="bc.html"?>
<title>bc-&bc-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="bc">
<primary sortas="a-Bc">Bc</primary></indexterm>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>bc</application></title>

<para>The <application>bc</application> package contains
an arbitrary precision numeric processing language.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&bc-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&bc-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &bc-md5sum;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &bc-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
&bc-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&bc-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink 
url="&patch-root;/bc-&bc-version;-flex_invocation-1.patch"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink 
url="&patch-root;/bc-&bc-version;-readline-1.patch"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>

<sect3><title><application>bc</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><ulink
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/">libedit</ulink>
(as an alternative to readline)</para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <command>bc</command></title>

<para>Install <application>bc</application> by running the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>patch -Np1 -i ../bc-&bc-version;-flex_invocation-1.patch &amp;&amp;
patch -Np1 -i ../bc-&bc-version;-readline-1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-readline &amp;&amp;
make</command></userinput></screen>

<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

<para>Now, as the root user:</para>

<screen><userinput role='root'><command>make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

<seglistitem>
<seg>bc and dc</seg>
<seg>None</seg>
<seg>None</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

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

<varlistentry id="bc-prog">
<term><command>bc</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a calculator.</para>
<indexterm zone="bc bc-prog">
<primary sortas="b-bc">bc</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="dc">
<term><command>dc</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a reverse-polish calculator.</para>
<indexterm zone="bc dc">
<primary sortas="b-dc">dc</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

</sect1>