6.15.2. Contents of Bc
Installed programs:
bc and dc
The Bc package contains an arbitrary precision numeric processing language.
First, change an internal script to use sed instead of ed:
cat > bc/fix-libmath_h << "EOF"
#! /bin/bash
sed -e '1 s/^/{"/' \
-e 's/$/",/' \
-e '2,$ s/^/"/' \
-e '$ d' \
-i libmath.h
sed -e '$ s/$/0}/' \
-i libmath.h
EOF
Create temporary symbolic links so the package can find the readline library and confirm that its required libncurses library is available. Even though the libraries are in /tools/lib at this point, the system will use /usr/lib at the end of this chapter.
ln -sv /tools/lib/libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 ln -sfv libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
Fix an issue in configure due to missing files in the early stages of LFS:
sed -i -e '/flex/s/as_fn_error/: ;; # &/' configure
Prepare Bc for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--with-readline \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--infodir=/usr/share/info
The meaning of the configure options:
--with-readline
This option tells Bc to use the readline library that is already installed
on the system rather than using its own readline version.
Compile the package:
make
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 round off error at the last digit.
echo "quit" | ./bc/bc -l Test/checklib.b
Install the package:
make install