The GMP package contains math libraries. These have useful functions for arbitrary precision arithmetic.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.2.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.2.2.tar.bz2
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Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB (additional 11 MB for alternative documentation)
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (additional 0.6 SBU to run the testsuite)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gmp
Install GMP by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-cxx --enable-mpbsd && make
If you wish to create alternate formats of the documentation (Postscript, PDF and chunked HTML versions require a teTeX-3.0 installation), issue any or all of the following commands:
make -C doc pdf && make -C doc ps && make -C doc html && texi2html -o doc/gmp_nochunks.html doc/gmp.texi && makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/gmp.txt doc/gmp.texi
To test the results, issue: make check. Due to various reports of mis-compilations, the maintainer strongly recommends running the test suite and reporting any failures. The libraries should not be used in a production environment if there are problems running make check. An easy way to determine if all the tests passed is to redirect the output of the tests to a file (make check >check.log 2>&1) and issue the following command:
awk '/tests passed/{total+=$2} ; END{print total}' check.log
        139 should be returned.
          Now, as the root user:
        
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gmp-4.2.2 &&
install -v -m644    doc/{isa_abi_headache,configuration} doc/*.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/gmp-4.2.2
        
          If you created any of the alternate formats of the documentation,
          install it using the following commands as the root user:
        
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gmp-4.2.2/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gmp.html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/gmp-4.2.2/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gmp.{pdf,dvi,ps,html,txt} \
                    /usr/share/doc/gmp-4.2.2
      
          --enable-cxx: This
          parameter enables C++ support by building the libgmpxx libraries.
        
          --enable-mpbsd: This
          parameter enables building the Berkeley MP compatibility
          (libmp) libraries.
        
Last updated on 2008-04-08 21:22:47 -0500