Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:37:42 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: tomdean@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: math libs? (core please take a peek) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970301213728.1308C-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199703020500.AAA03064@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > > The libm that has the mose 'fpu support is the msun lib, located > > in /usr/src/lib/msun. > > > > Build this lib with make -DHAVE_FPU > > and install it with make install. > > > > You should do this as root. > > > > I normally use make -n -DHAVE_FPU, etc. to see what the command > > does before I do it. > > > > I have been looking at this lib with an eye to improvements. > > > > If you have questions or problems, ask. > > Okay, thanks. Can I make a suggestion to the core team members, build both a > FPU and non FPU version of libm and stuff it in /usr/lib. Then make libm a > softlink to the emulated version. That way changing versions can be done by > asking about it during install, or simply after system install... Yes! This is a spiffy idea! > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu > > http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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