On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:46:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +On some SCO installations or versions, bc has a bug that gets triggered
> +when you run the test suite (using "make test"). The message returned is
> +"bc: 1 not implemented". You may run into something similar on FreeBSD
> +(version 4.2 has been reported), where the message is "Failed! bc: tmp.bntest
> +3: print statement" or something similar.
> +
> +The best way to deal with this is to find another implementation of bc
> +and compile/install it. GNU bc (see http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html
> +for download instructions) can be safely used, for example.
This isn't strictly right - the bc(1) in FreeBSD *is* GNU bc, it's
just a slightly older version (1.05). I'm just about to import 1.06
into -current in response to this.
Kris
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