Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 19:21:45 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com Subject: Re: drand48 problems persist. Message-ID: <199502030821.TAA00593@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I know several people have indicated they are unable to reproduce
>my reported problems about drand48 (on FreeBSD 2.0R).
>
>However, I'm unable to get drand48 to work on any machine where 2.0R is
>installed.
>...
>---
>extern double drand48();
>
>main()
>{
> int i;
> double d;
>
> for(i=0;i<3072;i++) {
> d = drand48();
> if(d >= 1.0) {
> printf("%lf is greater than 1.0\n", d);
> }
> }
>}
The problem seems to be that the libraries shipped with 2.0R don't match
the sources shipped with 2.0. Fix: rebuild libc.* and everything that
uses drand48. Sigh.
The key fix was committed to /usr/src/include/stdlib.h a few hours
before the 2.0R release buy the library apparently wasn't rebuilt to
pick up the changes. I looked at all the relevant timestamps and got
confused. The library objects seem to be up to date with
/usr/src/include/stdlib.h. However, they are out of date with
/usr/include/*.h. Building /usr/include apparently clobbered all the
timestamps. There seem to be some timezone bugs in isofs/cd9660 and/or
the cdrom. All the timestamps on the cdrom seem to be wrong by the time
difference between here and California.
There seems to be a another bug getting the correct paths for shared
libraries. To test for the drand48 bug, I first tried
`cc -o prog prog.c -L/cdrom/filesys/usr/lib/', but there was no problem
because my current libraries were linked to. The correct libraries are
linked to iff the -static flag is used.
Bruce
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