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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:30:58 +0100
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r202892 - head/usr.bin
Message-ID:  <20100124133058.GA34275@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4B5B565C.3020604@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201001231731.o0NHVDNY071237@svn.freebsd.org> <4B5B565C.3020604@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:04:44PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 01/23/10 09:31, Antoine Brodin wrote:
> > Author: antoine
> > Date: Sat Jan 23 17:31:13 2010
> > New Revision: 202892
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/202892

> > Log:
> >   Unbreak world WITHOUT_OPENSSL:
> >   the new dc(1) depends on crypto(3) and bc(1) depends on dc(1).

> The dependency on crytpo(3) seems problematic. What's the nature of the
> dependency and how hard would it be to work around?

The new dc(1) seems to use openssl's bn(3) multiprecision integer
functions to implement its multiprecision floating point arithmetic, so
the dependency seems fairly fundamental.

In the light of this, the size of the binary compared to the GNU one
seems a bit disappointing to me.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker



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