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authorAndreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>2024-12-27 19:31:07 +0100
committerAndreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>2024-12-30 17:03:36 +0100
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INSTALL, NEWS: Document requirement of gawk with MPFR support
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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@@ -559,6 +559,10 @@ build the GNU C Library:
version 5.3.0 is the newest verified to work to build the GNU C
Library.
+ Testing the GNU C Library requires 'gawk' to be compiled with
+ support for high precision arithmetic via the 'MPFR'
+ multiple-precision floating-point computation library.
+
* GNU 'bison' 2.7 or later
'bison' is used to generate the 'yacc' parser code in the 'intl'