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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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@@ -602,6 +602,10 @@ function, which was introduced in version 3.1.2 of @code{gawk}.
As of release time, @code{gawk} version 5.3.0 is the newest verified
to work to build @theglibc{}.
+Testing the GNU C Library requires @code{gawk} to be compiled with
+support for high precision arithmetic via the @code{MPFR}
+multiple-precision floating-point computation library.
+
@item
GNU @code{bison} 2.7 or later