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8 <sect1 id="ch-system-bc" role="wrap">
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12 <productname>bc</productname>
13 <productnumber>&bc-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&bc-url;</address>
17 <title>Bc-&bc-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc">
20 <primary sortas="a-Bc">Bc</primary>
23 <sect2 role="package">
26 <para>The Bc package contains an arbitrary precision numeric processing
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
34 <seg>&bc-ch6-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&bc-ch6-du;</seg>
41 <sect2 role="installation">
42 <title>Installation of Bc</title>
44 <para>First, change an internal script to use <command>sed</command> instead
45 of <command>ed</command>:</para>
47 <screen><userinput remap="pre">cat > bc/fix-libmath_h << "EOF"
57 EOF</userinput></screen>
59 <para>Create temporary symbolic links so the package can find
60 the readline library and confirm that its required libncurses
61 library is available. Even though the libraries are in /tools/lib
62 at this point, the system will use /usr/lib at the end of
65 <screen><userinput remap="pre">ln -sv /tools/lib/libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6
66 ln -sfv libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
68 <para>Fix an issue in <command>configure</command> due to missing
69 files in the early stages of LFS:</para>
71 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e '/flex/s/as_fn_error/: ;; # &/' configure</userinput></screen>
73 <para>Prepare Bc for compilation:</para>
75 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure - -prefix=/usr \
77 - -mandir=/usr/share/man \
78 - -infodir=/usr/share/info</userinput></screen>
80 <screen><userinput remap="configure">PREFIX=/usr CC=gcc CFLAGS="-std=c99" ./configure.sh -G -O3</userinput></screen>
83 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
86 <term><parameter>- -with-readline</parameter></term>
88 <para>This option tells Bc to use the <filename
89 class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is already
90 installed on the system rather than using its own readline
96 <term><parameter>CC=gcc CFLAGS="-std=c99"</parameter></term>
98 <para>These parameters specify the compiler and C standard to use.</para>
103 <term><parameter>-G -O3</parameter></term>
105 <para>These parameters specify the optimization to use. Debug symbols
106 will be retained.</para>
111 <para>Compile the package:</para>
113 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
115 <para>To test bc, run the commands below. There is quite a bit of output,
116 so you may want to redirect it to a file. There are a very small percentage
117 of tests (10 of 12,144) that will indicate a round off error at the last
120 <screen><userinput remap="test">echo "quit" | ./bc/bc -l Test/checklib.b</userinput></screen>
123 <para>To test bc, run:</para>
125 <screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
128 <para>Install the package:</para>
130 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
134 <sect2 id="contents-bc" role="content">
135 <title>Contents of Bc</title>
138 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
146 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
147 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
148 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
150 <varlistentry id="bc">
151 <term><command>bc</command></term>
153 <para>A command line calculator</para>
154 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc bc">
155 <primary sortas="b-bc">bc</primary>
160 <varlistentry id="dc">
161 <term><command>dc</command></term>
163 <para>A reverse-polish command line calculator</para>
164 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc dc">
165 <primary sortas="b-dc">dc</primary>