bc-1.06

Introduction to bc

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bc/bc-1.06.tar.gz
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bc/bc-1.06.tar.gz
Version used:                   1.06
Package size:                   280 KB
Estimated Disk space required:  1.6 MB
Estimated build time:           0.07 SBU

The bc package contains bc. This is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language.

bc depends on:
readline-4.3

Installation of bc

Download the patches for bc from http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches.

Install bc by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../bc-1.06-flex-invocation.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../bc-1.06-info.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../bc-1.06-readline.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-readline &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The bc package contains bc and dc.

Description

bc

bc is a calculator.

dc

dc is a reverse-polish calculator.