Installing calc in 4 easy steps: 1) Look at the makefile, and adjust it to suit your needs. Here are some Makefile hints: Select a compiler set by commenting in the appropriate set of cc options. As shipped the Makefile assumes a gcc-like environment such as Linux. If a more appropriate cc set if found below, comment out the Linux set and comment in that set or edit the gcc set or the common cc set as needed. You may or may not need RANLIB when building libraries. As shipped the Makefile assumes RANLIB is needed. Comment the in/out the RANLIB value if ranlib does not work or does not exist. You may want to change the default pager used by calc. As shipped the Makefile assumes 'more'. On your system you may find 'less' to be a better pager. The CALCBINDINGS is matter of personal taste. As shipped the Makefile assumes a default quasi-emacs-like command line editor. Changing CALCBINDINGS= altbind will cause ^D to end calc in a fashion similar to that of the bc(1) command. Set TOPDIR to be the place under which help files, calc, include files and calc libs are to be installed. As shipped the Makefile assumes a TOPDIR of /usr/local/lib. Set BINDIR to the place where calc is installed. As shipped the Makefile assumes a BINDIR /usr/local/bin. Adjust other Makefile variables as needed. 2) build calc: make all ==> We are interested in any compiler warnings (and errors) that you may find. See the BUGS file if you find any compiler warning or errors. 3) test calc: make check ==> If you run into problems, follow the BUGS file instructions. 4) install calc: make install We suggest that you might want to read the README file and look at the calc help subsystem. See the README file for details.