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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2013-04-30 00:23:37 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2013-04-30 00:23:37 +0000
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parent3d086301a24df2a3c12770cbcaa90ecee3570fac (diff)
Add bc to Chapter 6 to support Linux-3.9
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10258 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/bc.xml b/chapter06/bc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e37d0132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter06/bc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-bc" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="bc.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>bc</productname>
+ <productnumber>&bc-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&bc-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Bc-&bc-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc">
+ <primary sortas="a-Bc">Bc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The Bc package contains an arbitrary precision numeric processing
+ language.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&bc-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&bc-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Bc</title>
+
+ <para>Prepare Bc for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --with-readline</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-readline</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This option tells Bc to use the <filename
+ class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is already
+ installed on the system rather than using its own readline
+ version.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To test bc, run the commands below. There is quite a bit of output,
+ so you may want to redirect it to a file. There are a very small percentage
+ of tests (10 of 12,144) that will indicate a roundoff error at the last
+ digit.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">echo "quit" | ./bc/bc -l Test/checklib.b</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-bc" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Bc</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>bc and dc</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="bc">
+ <term><command>bc</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a command line calculator</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc bc">
+ <primary sortas="b-bc">bc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="dc">
+ <term><command>dc</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a reverse-polish command line calculator</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-bc dc">
+ <primary sortas="b-dc">dc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
index 89458bee5..866cde984 100644
--- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml
+++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="grep.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="readline.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="bash.xml"/>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="bc.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libtool.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="gdbm.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="inetutils.xml"/>