Download location (HTTP): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.1.2.tar.bz2 Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.1.2.tar.bz2 Version used: 4.1.2 Package size: 1.6 MB Estimated Disk space required: 19.2 MB |
The gmp package contains a MP library. This has useful functions for arbitrary precision arithmetic.
gmp will utilize: readline-4.3. |
Install gmp by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info && make && make install |
The gmp package contains libgmp libraries.
gmp libraries contains the functions to operate on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.