Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 07:05:07 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 Message-ID: <20120528210507.GF2675@aspire.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <4FC3A154.8030702@missouri.edu> References: <4FC30090.4070003@gwdg.de> <4D8CF7D2-CBEE-438E-A9E7-9C47A8892622@FreeBSD.org> <4FC36FE1.9080908@gwdg.de> <DFE44442-A1B1-40B3-9A79-874BD2BE45E7@FreeBSD.org> <4FC38B81.6000302@gwdg.de> <4FC3A154.8030702@missouri.edu>
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On 2012-May-28 11:01:24 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.e=
du> wrote:
>One thing that could be done is to have a "math/cephes" port that adds=20
>the extra C99 math functions. This is already done in the math/sage=20
>port, using a rather clever patch due to Peter Jeremy, that applies to=20
>the cephes code.
>
>What it would do is to create a /usr/local/lib/libm.so that would=20
>provide the extra functions not currently included in /lib/libm.so, and=20
>then link in /lib/libm.so as well. It would also create its own=20
>/usr/local/include/math.h and /usr/local/include/complex.h as well.
Basically, as long as the compiler searches /usr/local/{include,lib}
before the base include/lib then <math.h>, <complex.h> and -lm give
the application a complete C99 math implementation by using base
functions where they exist and cephes functions where they don't.
The patch I wrote for sage can be found at
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9543
If there's any interest, I could produce a port for this.
Another option would be to import cephes into base and use it to
provide the missing C99 functions. Cephes includes copyright notices
but the closest I can find to a license is:
" Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and
Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall or Simon & Schuster
International, 1989) or from the Cephes Mathematical Library, a
commercial product. In either event, it is copyrighted by the author.
What you see here may be used freely but it comes with no support or
guarantee."
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Peter Jeremy
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