On Aug 11, 2024, at 00:03, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>
> The MacPorts version uses MacPorts supplied libraries (other than libSystem). 
> The macOS version uses macOS supplied libraries. (ultimately from the same 
> open source projects, but potentially different versions and build options, 
> so not identical code)

On  Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:08:11 -0500, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
>It's *not* the same software. MacPorts has GNU bc 1.07 which is licensed 
>GPL-3. macOS used to have GNU bc 1.06 released back in 2000 under GPL-2. Apple 
>has switched to someone else's bc implementation in recent macOS probably 
>because as we know Apple is allergic to GPL-3.

It's the sonoma one that's broken here.  I just assumed bc was from
macports.  Thankfully the macports one fixed it.  That's funny about
the GPL thing; sounds about right. Sorry for the false alarm; glad I
didn't open a bug report. Thanks!
-matt

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