Bug#608832: factor compiled without bignum support

2011-01-03 Thread C de-Avillez
On 01/03/2011 01:34 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > Pulling in a bignum library into the required list in order to > support the factor(1) command seems a little obnoxious. If someone > wants to design a coreutils-factor-bignum package that diverts > factor or somesuch I guess I'd consider it, but is t

Bug#608832: factor compiled without bignum support

2011-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:26:36PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote: >>If `factor' is built without using GNU MP, only single-precision >>arithmetic is available, and so large numbers (typically 2^64 and >>above) will not be supported. > > Pulling in a bignum library into the requir

Bug#608832: factor compiled without bignum support

2011-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:26:36PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote: If `factor' is built without using GNU MP, only single-precision arithmetic is available, and so large numbers (typically 2^64 and above) will not be supported. Pulling in a bignum library into the required list in order to support

Bug#608832: factor compiled without bignum support

2011-01-03 Thread C de-Avillez
Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1ubuntu4 Severity: normal User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty *** /tmp/forwarded-from-ubuntu-w99ESc.txt This bug report was also filed in Ubuntu and can be found at http://launchpad.net/bugs/696618 The description, from Mechanical sna