[PATCH] INSTALL, NEWS: Document requirement of gawk with MPFR support

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 27/12/24 15:32, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  INSTALL             | 5 +++++
>  NEWS                | 3 +++
>  manual/install.texi | 5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index 717b34a374..26f6041b5e 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -559,6 +559,11 @@ 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 computations with exact rounding)

Extra ')'? And 'with exact rounding library' seems superfluous, since
MPFR already implies it.

> +     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 4ceecd6249..3d4380e43f 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ 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..7c66698779 100644
> --- a/manual/install.texi
> +++ b/manual/install.texi
> @@ -602,6 +602,11 @@ 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 computations with exact
> +rounding) library.

Ditto.

> +
>  @item
>  GNU @code{bison} 2.7 or later
>