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| author | Joey Smith <joey@php.net> | 2000-05-03 04:57:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Joey Smith <joey@php.net> | 2000-05-03 04:57:11 +0000 |
| commit | 80d6eccf6e92c2912500291b29fd59717bd24945 (patch) | |
| tree | 845df4766eca4719282d16f467c09d539e198590 /README.BCMATH | |
| parent | 0022a2f81ad2fffe20da1f9a47c6f8e2853986ab (diff) | |
| download | php-git-80d6eccf6e92c2912500291b29fd59717bd24945.tar.gz | |
Moving README-BCMATH to README.BCMATH
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diff --git a/README.BCMATH b/README.BCMATH new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7d5bac19a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.BCMATH @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +How to install PHP with the BCMath arbitrary precision math library? +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Due to license restrictions, the BC math library can no longer be distributed +along with PHP. The BC math library is distributed under the restrictive +GNU Public License, and PHP is no longer distributed under that license, but +under a less restrictive license, the PHP License. + +If you want to enable BC math support (recommended), all you have to do is +simply download http://www.php.net/extra/number4.tar.gz, and untar it on the +top level php4 directory. + +A typical way of doing this would be (assuming that you have lynx): +cd ~/php4 +lynx -dump -source http://www.php.net/extra/number4.tar.gz | gzip -d | tar xvf - + +The PHP Group |