From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 21:39:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA22602 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:39:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22596 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:39:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01317; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:37:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:37:42 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Charles Henrich cc: tomdean@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: math libs? (core please take a peek) In-Reply-To: <199703020500.AAA03064@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FREEBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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."