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diff --git a/system/dieharder/README b/system/dieharder/README index a980e39cca..d2ea4959c8 100644 --- a/system/dieharder/README +++ b/system/dieharder/README @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ -Dieharder is a random number generator (RNG) testing suite, designed to make -it easy to time and test RNGs implemented in both software and hardware. It -makes extensive use of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL), and includes a -battery of pseudorandom number generators (PRNG) and testing algorithms for -research and cryptographic applications. +Dieharder is a random number generator (RNG) testing suite, designed +to make it easy to time and test RNGs implemented in both software and +hardware. It makes extensive use of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL), +and includes a battery of pseudorandom number generators (PRNG) and +testing algorithms for research and cryptographic applications. -The software saw its last release in 2011, and differences with newer versions -of autoconf are starting to become apparent. Patches are applied mostly to -overcome these differences, as well as one trivial fix to appease C99. The -build installs the dieharder software as well as the libdieharder libraries -that can be called from your program code. +The software saw its last release in 2011, and patches are applied +mostly to overcome differences with newer versions of autoconf. This +build installs the dieharder program as well as the libdieharder +shared libraries that can be called from your program code. + +If you have latex2html installed and want the PDF manual, execute the +build script like so: PDFMAN=yes ./dieharder.SlackBuild |