GMP.2.0.2.3.m.README
April 28, 1998

These archives contain Installer.app packages of an OpenStep
framework for GNU's gmp-2.0.2.  It is a C library for doing
arbitrary-precision mathematics.  This library is utilized in
building many other tools, like ssh and various mathematical software
packages (macaulay2).


file:  	GMP.2.0.2.3.m.NIS.b.tar.gz
sum:   	02658   332
md5sum:	40b2270f65d91798ddcf8939c0ed90a3

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INSTALLATION

Install the framework to /LocalLibrary/Frameworks.  This is the easiest
place to put it, and software built with this framework expects it to
be there.  Alternate locations are possible, only if you know what you
are doing and/or you don't mind playing with the Makefile in the 
framework to change the default installation parameters.


NOTES

Contact me if you are interested in the (slightly modified) source code.
See ChangeLog document (within framework) for more details of recent changes.


CHANGELOG

April, 1998 (port 3)
- Removed static libs from standard distribution.  Available on request.
- I chose to build dylib-nice (mostly generic c version) as opposed
  to a speed-intensive version that conains some non-movable (ie
  non-sharable) code (using asm routines).  
- Include a few patches from GMP website.
- Recurring problem with udiv_qrnnd being undefined for sparc. 
  Munged a bit with longlong.h, configure.in mpn/configure.in
  I think this is fixed now for generic-next-* and
  sparc-next-* targets (* = nextstep3 or openstep4).
  The same problem exists for the generic-next-* target for hppa
  (it currently still uses an asm function).  I don't care to fix
  or worry about this right now, as hppa is on it's way out anyway.
- Update to fancier GNUmakefile
- Reorganize and enhance framework layout: Add README, GMP.pre_install,
  GMP.gif, GMP.tiff.


CREDITS

GMP Home Page
http://www.matematik.su.se/~tege/gmp/

GNU Software Archive
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

Framework Build
Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Computer System Manager
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/