INSTALL, NEWS: Document requirement of gawk with MPFR support

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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@ -559,6 +559,10 @@ build the GNU C Library:
version 5.3.0 is the newest verified to work to build the GNU C
Library.
Testing the GNU C Library requires 'gawk' to be compiled with
support for high precision arithmetic via the 'MPFR'
multiple-precision floating-point computation library.
* GNU 'bison' 2.7 or later
'bison' is used to generate the 'yacc' parser code in the 'intl'

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@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support for
high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
Security related changes:
The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be

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@ -602,6 +602,10 @@ function, which was introduced in version 3.1.2 of @code{gawk}.
As of release time, @code{gawk} version 5.3.0 is the newest verified
to work to build @theglibc{}.
Testing the GNU C Library requires @code{gawk} to be compiled with
support for high precision arithmetic via the @code{MPFR}
multiple-precision floating-point computation library.
@item
GNU @code{bison} 2.7 or later