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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.hk.net!cyber.net.hk!clc.uxhk.COM!clarence From: clarence@uxmail.ust.hk (User Clarence) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: 2.0-950210-SNAP Date: 12 Feb 1995 14:04:42 GMT Organization: CyberNet Hong Kong Limited Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3hl4hq$d8v@cyber.net.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p199.cyber.net.hk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] hi there, just to mention about the missing of two files from the SNAP, namely /usr/src/lib/libss/std_rqs.ct and /usr/src/lib/libss/ss_err.et 'make world' is smooth, just don't want to try msun, sqrt(-1.0) still dump core. i have a patch to bsd-libm to make it return ERANGE/EDOM, and suprisingly the libmsun under NetBSD properley handle the exception. don't know what's wrong with the FreeBSD implementations. hope that someone can point me to the right track. also, there's some files in libc.a that has no symbols, like bt_debug.o. that'll cause trouble to make some packages, like tcl/tk which depends on 0 being returned to nm. i have added 'char __bt_debug_dummy;' at the beginning of the file to avoid this. hope that help some developers. to my opinion, FreeBSD is one of the best development system I've come across, though i still want to try Mach and taste the Microkernel, pthread, DCE stuffs. and i really enjoy working with the OS, hopefully a successful port of it on acorn be come true soon. a question: will it be possible to enable OS_HAS_LOCALE in making xview3.2? definitely i had tried, in vain. but the setlocale(3) had been implemented well in FreeBSD! my working working port of Motif-1.2.3/X11R6 supported that well, but not in xview3.2. clarence chu clarence@cyber.net.hk