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1.1     ! ohara       1: Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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        !             3: This file is part of the GNU MP Library.
        !             4:
        !             5: The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
        !             6: it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
        !             7: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your
        !             8: option) any later version.
        !             9:
        !            10: The GNU MP Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
        !            11: WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
        !            12: or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public
        !            13: License for more details.
        !            14:
        !            15: You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
        !            16: along with the GNU MP Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
        !            17: the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
        !            18: 02111-1307, USA.
        !            19:
        !            20:
        !            21:
        !            22:
        !            23:
        !            24:                   GMP PERL MODULE INSTALLATION
        !            25:
        !            26:
        !            27: This module can be compiled within the GMP source directory or moved
        !            28: elsewhere and compiled.  An installed GMP can be used, or a specified
        !            29: GMP build tree.  Both static and shared GMP builds will work.
        !            30:
        !            31: The simplest case is when GMP has been installed to a standard system
        !            32: location
        !            33:
        !            34:        perl Makefile.PL
        !            35:        make
        !            36:
        !            37: If not yet installed then the top-level GMP build directory must be
        !            38: specified
        !            39:
        !            40:        perl Makefile.PL GMP_BUILDDIR=/my/gmp/build
        !            41:        make
        !            42:
        !            43: In any case, with the module built, the sample program provided can be
        !            44: run
        !            45:
        !            46:        perl -Iblib/arch sample.pl
        !            47:
        !            48: If you built a shared version of libgmp but haven't yet installed it,
        !            49: then it might be necessary to add a run-time path to it.  For example
        !            50:
        !            51:        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/my/gmp/build/.libs perl -Iblib/arch sample.pl
        !            52:
        !            53: Documentation is provided in pod format in GMP.pm, and will have been
        !            54: "man"-ified in the module build
        !            55:
        !            56:        man -l blib/man3/GMP.3pm
        !            57: or
        !            58:        man -M`pwd`/blib GMP
        !            59:
        !            60: A test script is provided, running a large number of more or less
        !            61: trivial checks
        !            62:
        !            63:        make test
        !            64:
        !            65: The module and its documentation can be installed in the usual way
        !            66:
        !            67:        make install
        !            68:
        !            69: This will be into /usr/local or wherever the perl Config module
        !            70: directs, but that can be controlled back at the Makefile.PL stage with
        !            71: the usual ExtUtils::MakeMaker options.
        !            72:
        !            73: Once installed, programs using the GMP module become simply
        !            74:
        !            75:        perl sample.pl
        !            76:
        !            77: And the documentation read directly too
        !            78:
        !            79:        man GMP