(Reference, I am looking at the 'failed' test given by make test, and
 the 'bctest' script)

Hi,

I do not claim to understand the cryptography, and probably most of the
maths involved, but I am puzzled as to why bc being 'broken' is an issue?

Not least of all since you have dc which appears to work:

draco$ dc << EOF
> AD88C418F31B3FC712D0425001D522B3AE9134FF3A98C13C1FCC1682211195406C1A6C66C6A\
> CEEC1A0EC16950233F77F1C2F2363D56DD71A36C57E0B2511FC4BA8F22D261FE2E9356D99AF57\
> 10F3817C0E05BF79C423C3F66FDF321BE8D3F18F625D91B670931C1EF25F28E489BDA1C5422D1\
> C3F6F7A1AD21585746ECC4F10A14A778AF56F08898E965E9909E965E0CB6F85B514150C644759\
> 3BE731877B16EA07B552088FF2EA728AC5E0FF3A23EB939304519AB8B60F2C33D6BA0945B66F0\
> 4FC3CADF855448B24A9D7640BCF473Esa
> DCE91E7D120B983EA9A104B5A96D634DD644C37657B1C7860B45E6838999B3DCE5A555583C6\
> 9209E41F413422954175A06E67FFEF6746DD652F0F48AEFECC3D8CAC13523BDAAD3F5AF4212BD\
> 8B3CD64126E1A82E190228020C05B91C8B141F1110086FC2A4C6ED631EBA129D04BB9A19FC53D\
> 3ED0E2017D60A68775B75481449sb
> la lb / lb * la lb % + la - p
> EOF
0
draco$ uname -srvmpi
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60


Personally I would use dc in preference to bc for all scripted use anyway.

I imagine that I am missing something here, of course, but it did
seem worth mentioning in case I wasn't.

This only came up because someone was concerned about compiling something
(OpenSSH) which relied on compiling your library first.

Cheers,

Julian
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