From 0feb6da94c435a81699bfeacdc84150098f64025 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20K=2E=20H=C3=BCttel?= Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:31:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL, NEWS: Document requirement of gawk with MPFR support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel --- INSTALL | 4 ++++ NEWS | 3 +++ manual/install.texi | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 717b34a374..7e8dcbb089 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -559,6 +559,10 @@ build the GNU C Library: version 5.3.0 is the newest verified to work to build the GNU C Library. + Testing the GNU C Library requires 'gawk' to be compiled with + support for high precision arithmetic via the 'MPFR' + multiple-precision floating-point computation library. + * GNU 'bison' 2.7 or later 'bison' is used to generate the 'yacc' parser code in the 'intl' diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ee42601551..4cb307fd02 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements: act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event. +* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support for + high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library. + Security related changes: The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 05a774b33b..b5292a976a 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -602,6 +602,10 @@ function, which was introduced in version 3.1.2 of @code{gawk}. As of release time, @code{gawk} version 5.3.0 is the newest verified to work to build @theglibc{}. +Testing the GNU C Library requires @code{gawk} to be compiled with +support for high precision arithmetic via the @code{MPFR} +multiple-precision floating-point computation library. + @item GNU @code{bison} 2.7 or later