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-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