The new bc and dc implementation that has become the default version in FreeBSD-CURRENT has been merged to 12-STABLE and will be included in the upcoming release 12.2.
It has a number of advantages (standards compliance, speed, NLS support) over the one in previous FreeBSD releases, but in accordance with POLA it will require the option WITH_GH_BC=yes to be passed to buildworld and installworld in FreeBSD-12. With WITH_TESTS=yes a large number of tests is built and available as part of the Kyua based test framework - test results from platforms other than i386 and amd64 are welcome. The same version of bc and dc is also available as a port or package, but built with less aggressive compiler optimizations and without any test cases being installed (but they can be run with "make test" in the port directory /usr/ports/math/gh-bc). _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
