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

Andreas K. Hüttel dilfridge@gentoo.org
Sat Dec 28 21:03:05 GMT 2024


Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
---
v2: removed extra bracket, shortened INSTALL
---
 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 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..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
 
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2.45.2



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