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- From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Subject: Re: Anyone done bc?
- In-Reply-To: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM's message of 22 Jul 92 20:18:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <JRS.92Jul22222131@lepton.world.std.com>
- Lines: 116
- Sender: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Organization: The World
- References: <1992Jul22.201824.23946@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:21:31 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 22 Jul 92 20:18:24 GMT, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E
- >>>>> Davidsen) said:
-
- bill> Last night using linux I realized how much I use bc. Has anyone done a
- bill> port, or is there even a free version? Seems there was a GNU version,
- bill> but it may only have been dc.
-
- There is a GNU version available from prep and the others as:
-
- prep.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/bc-1.02.tar.Z
-
- You may want bison and flex although these are not strictly necessary.
- The original distribution requires ed but Linux has none so I used awk.
-
- Here is a Linux patch for bc-1.06.tar.Z:
- -----
- diff -rcN ../bc-1.02/Makefile ./Makefile
- *** ../bc-1.02/Makefile Wed Mar 4 18:21:47 1992
- --- ./Makefile Wed Jul 22 21:35:21 1992
- ***************
- *** 6,12 ****
- #
- # LIBDIR and BINDIR are where bc and libmath.b will be put.
- #
- ! PREFIX = /usr/local
- LIBDIR = $(PREFIX)/lib
- BINDIR = $(PREFIX)/bin
- MANDIR = $(PREFIX)/man/man1
- --- 6,12 ----
- #
- # LIBDIR and BINDIR are where bc and libmath.b will be put.
- #
- ! PREFIX = /usr
- LIBDIR = $(PREFIX)/lib
- BINDIR = $(PREFIX)/bin
- MANDIR = $(PREFIX)/man/man1
- ***************
- *** 23,33 ****
- # Programs definitions for use by make.
- #
- SHELL = /bin/sh
- ! YACC = yacc
- ! #YACC = bison -y
- LEX = flex -I8
- #LEX = lex
- ! CC = cc
- UUENCODE = uue
- MAKE = make
- #
- --- 23,33 ----
- # Programs definitions for use by make.
- #
- SHELL = /bin/sh
- ! #YACC = yacc
- ! YACC = bison -y
- LEX = flex -I8
- #LEX = lex
- ! CC = gcc
- UUENCODE = uue
- MAKE = make
- #
- ***************
- *** 37,43 ****
- # README file for more details.
- #
- O=o
- ! CFLAGS = -O -D_POSIX_SOURCE
- LDFLAGS =
- #
- # For the PC version of MINIX (K&R compiler), use the following lines.
- --- 37,43 ----
- # README file for more details.
- #
- O=o
- ! CFLAGS = -O2 -D_POSIX_SOURCE
- LDFLAGS =
- #
- # For the PC version of MINIX (K&R compiler), use the following lines.
- diff -rcN ../bc-1.02/config.h ./config.h
- *** ../bc-1.02/config.h
- --- ./config.h Wed Jul 22 21:33:46 1992
- ***************
- *** 0 ****
- --- 1 ----
- + /* config.h */
- diff -rcN ../bc-1.02/fix_math.h ./fix_math.h
- *** ../bc-1.02/fix_math.h Fri Nov 1 21:19:55 1991
- --- ./fix_math.h Wed Jul 22 21:53:39 1992
- ***************
- *** 1,8 ****
- ! ed math.h <<EOS-EOS
- ! 1,1s/^/"/
- ! 1,\$s/\$/\\\\/
- ! \$,\$d
- ! \$,\$s/\\\\\$/"/
- ! w
- ! q
- ! EOS-EOS
- --- 1,14 ----
- ! awk '
- ! { line[++n] = $0 }
- ! END {
- ! printf "\""
- ! for (i = 1; i < n; i++) {
- ! printf "%s", line[i]
- ! if (i < n - 1)
- ! printf "\\\n"
- ! else
- ! printf "\"\n"
- ! }
- ! }
- ! ' <math.h >new.math.h
- ! mv new.math.h math.h
- --
- Rick Sladkey
- jrs@world.std.com
-