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1Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2Contributed by the Arenaire and Cacao projects, INRIA.
3
4This file is part of the GNU MPFR Library.
5
6The GNU MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
9option) any later version.
10
11The GNU MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
12WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
13or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public
14License for more details.
15
16You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
17along with the GNU MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LESSER.  If not, see
18http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
1951 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20
21##############################################################################
22
23The GNU MPFR distribution contains the following files:
24(This does not apply to code retrieved by Subversion.)
25
26AUTHORS         - the authors of the library
27BUGS            - bugs in MPFR - please read this file!
28COPYING         - the GNU General Public License, version 3
29COPYING.LESSER  - the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3
30ChangeLog       - the log of changes
31FAQ.html        - frequently asked questions about MPFR
32INSTALL         - how to install MPFR (see also mpfr.texi)
33Makefile*       - files for building the library
34NEWS            - new features with respect to previous versions
35PATCHES         - empty file (until patches are applied)
36README          - this file
37TODO            - what remains to do (any help is welcome!)
38VERSION         - version of MPFR (next release version if taken by Subversion)
39ac*.m4          - automatic configuration files
40ansi2knr.*      - convert ANSI C to Kernighan & Ritchie C (source and man page)
41*.c             - source files
42*.h             - header files
43compile         - auxiliary installation file
44config.*        - auxiliary installation files
45configure*      - configuration files
46depcomp         - auxiliary installation file
47examples/       - directory containing examples
48fdl.texi        - the GNU Free Documentation License
49get_patches.sh  - rebuild get_patches.c when patches have been applied
50install-sh      - installation file
51ltmain.sh       - auxiliary installation file
52m4/             - directory containing additional configuration files
53missing         - auxiliary installation file
54mparam_h.in     - header file template
55mpfr.info       - info file for MPFR
56mpfr.texi       - texinfo documentation for MPFR (source)
57tests/          - test directory
58texinfo.tex     - TeX macros to handle mpfr.texi
59
60According to the special exception to the GNU General Public License,
61the autotools files compile, config.sub, config.guess, ltmain.sh,
62m4/libtool.m4 and missing are distributed under the same licence of
63GNU MPFR.
64
65
66You can get the latest source code by Subversion at INRIAGForge:
67
68  svn checkout svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk mpfr
69
70or
71
72  svn checkout https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk mpfr
73
74(the last argument can be any directory name). You can use
75
76  svn ls svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/branches
77  svn ls svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/tags
78
79to get the list of branches or tags (releases), then checkout a
80particular branch or tag instead of the trunk. Alternatively, you
81can now use the "https:" scheme (a.k.a. DAV) instead of "svn:".
82For more information about Subversion, please see:
83
84  * http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ (the official Subversion book);
85  * http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SvnHelp (written for GCC developers,
86    but interesting general information can be found there);
87  * http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html (the Subversion FAQ).
88
89Subversion users should read the file "README.dev" (provided via
90SVN only).
91