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Date:      Fri, 1 May 1998 23:28:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bc changes have broken make world
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501230435.15307K-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199805020239.MAA07788@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Sat, 2 May 1998, John Birrell wrote:

> The latest changes to bc are causing the groff/devascii build to
> fail. Before the change, groff/devascii would do:
> 
> echo 240 / 10 | bc
> 
> and get:
> 
> 24
> 
> The new bc outputs:
> 
> 240 / 10
> 24

Oh, is that the reason?  If I were to update my system bc, it would then
fail for builds in all cases ... I gotcha ... yeah, I see this.

> 
> which is incompatible with groff/Makefile.tty
> 
> This needs to be fixed.
> 
> -- 
> John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
> CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137
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