BOOK/chapter08/bc.xml

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   7
   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-bc" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="bc.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>bc</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&bc-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&bc-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Bc-&bc-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Bc">Bc</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>The Bc package contains an arbitrary precision numeric processing
  27     language.</para>
  28
  29     <segmentedlist>
  30       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  31       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  32
  33       <seglistitem>
  34         <seg>&bc-fin-sbu;</seg>
  35         <seg>&bc-fin-du;</seg>
  36       </seglistitem>
  37     </segmentedlist>
  38
  39   </sect2>
  40
  41   <sect2 role="installation">
  42     <title>Installation of Bc</title>
  43
  44     <para>Prepare Bc for compilation:</para>
  45
  46 <screen><userinput remap="configure">CC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr -G -O3</userinput></screen>
  47
  48     <variablelist>
  49       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  50
  51       <varlistentry>
  52         <term><parameter>CC=gcc</parameter></term>
  53         <listitem>
  54           <para>This parameter specifies the compiler to use.</para>
  55         </listitem>
  56       </varlistentry>
  57
  58       <varlistentry>
  59         <term><parameter>-O3</parameter></term>
  60         <listitem>
  61           <para>Specify the optimization to use.</para>
  62         </listitem>
  63       </varlistentry>
  64
  65       <varlistentry>
  66         <term><parameter>-G</parameter></term>
  67         <listitem>
  68           <para>Omit  parts of the test suite that won't work
  69           without a GNU bc present.</para>
  70         </listitem>
  71       </varlistentry>
  72     </variablelist>
  73
  74     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  75
  76 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  77
  78     <para>To test bc, run:</para>
  79
  80 <screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
  81
  82
  83     <para>Install the package:</para>
  84
  85 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  86
  87   </sect2>
  88
  89   <sect2 id="contents-bc" role="content">
  90     <title>Contents of Bc</title>
  91
  92     <segmentedlist>
  93       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  94
  95       <seglistitem>
  96         <seg>bc and dc</seg>
  97       </seglistitem>
  98     </segmentedlist>
  99
 100     <variablelist>
 101       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
 102       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 103       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 104
 105       <varlistentry id="bc">
 106         <term><command>bc</command></term>
 107         <listitem>
 108           <para>A command line calculator</para>
 109           <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc bc">
 110             <primary sortas="b-bc">bc</primary>
 111           </indexterm>
 112         </listitem>
 113       </varlistentry>
 114
 115       <varlistentry id="dc">
 116         <term><command>dc</command></term>
 117         <listitem>
 118           <para>A reverse-polish command line calculator</para>
 119           <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc dc">
 120             <primary sortas="b-dc">dc</primary>
 121           </indexterm>
 122         </listitem>
 123       </varlistentry>
 124
 125     </variablelist>
 126
 127   </sect2>
 128
 129 </sect1>