Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2020-07-20 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:36 AM John Scott wrote: > > The reason it doesn't currently build that way is that it would > > as a side effect raise the priority of libgmp, and I'm not sure that > > using expr for big numbers is worth making libgmp mandatory on a minimal > > debian install. > It appea

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2020-07-20 Thread John Scott
> The reason it doesn't currently build that way is that it would > as a side effect raise the priority of libgmp, and I'm not sure that > using expr for big numbers is worth making libgmp mandatory on a minimal > debian install. It appears this is no longer the case, GMP is a required part of an i

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2020-01-09 Thread Валерий Заподовников
Really, guys? You understand that even git for windows https://git-scm.com/download/win comes with GMP activated by default in windows compiled coreutils (C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin)? And you still DID NOT ACTIVATE IT? Wow.

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2015-12-04 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:18:05 -0500 Michael Stone wrote: > I have more faith in upstream than in redhat, honestly, so that isn't a > factor. The reason it doesn't currently build that way is that it would > as a side effect raise the priority of libgmp, and I'm not sure that > using expr for big

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2015-12-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/12/15 13:21, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:43:59AM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Another thing to consider is depending on openssl >> and using ./configure --with-openssl which will >> get significantly faster sha*sum implementations. > > In addition to the concern about

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2015-12-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:43:59AM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: Another thing to consider is depending on openssl and using ./configure --with-openssl which will get significantly faster sha*sum implementations. In addition to the concern about making openssl a required component, I'm surprised

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2015-12-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 08:09:38PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: Other distro such as RHEL/CentOS also enabled this and ship it for a long time and I cannot see any hurm for it, and we can get fix from them if there would be. I have more faith in upstream than in redhat, honestly, so that isn't a

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2015-12-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/12/15 11:09, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Package: coreutils > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > Here's a tiny B-D patch to build coreutils with GMP(https://gmplib.org/), > it can manage huge numbers with expr. > > * Without GMP > ---

Bug#806947: coreutils: improve expr with huge numbers by GMP

2015-12-03 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: coreutils Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, Here's a tiny B-D patch to build coreutils with GMP(https://gmplib.org/), it can manage huge numbers with expr. * Without GMP $ expr `echo 2 ^ 62 | bc` + 0 461168601842738790