On Friday, June 01, 2012 1:55:10 am Eitan Adler wrote: > On 31 May 2012 08:45, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I do think we should provide something in ports as an interim solution. > > There are other 3rd party applications looking to drop FreeBSD support > > because we are missing APIs that almost all other OS's have. I'm fine > > if the interim lives in ports and that we don't import substandard > > routines into the base. I would even be fine with calling it > > /usr/local/lib/libm_inaccurate.so. However, I do think we need an option. > > Do we have a wiki page listing the functions in libm we are missing? > Having some kind of place to track progress and figure out what > exactly is needed is the first step to getting these APIs into shape. > > Also, are there BSD licensed naive implementations of these functions > we can use? Would it be okay to have slow, but accurate versions of > these functions as a stopgap?
Peter Jeremy more or less has a stopgap already ready judging by the comments in the thread thus far. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
