On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:05:46AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > A few nits about the Command Explanations: > > For --enable-float we mention RawTherapee, and then say > > "These versions are not usable by packages in this book which use > libfftw3 so if you need both you will need to build fftw twice." > > I think we should add Pulseaudio to the float option, and mention it > first because it is in the book ? Or maybe just mention "e.g. > pulse" since we are now building that version so it will be there > for RawTherappe and anything else ? > > And drop that last sentence because we are now building it three > times. > > But does anyone know what packages use the long double version ? > All I can find is questions on Stack Overflow etc where people are > writing their own C programs. > > Hmm, since single-precision is float (as compared to double which is > not floating-point), and produces the libfftw3f* libs, make also > change 'Now build single-precision' to 'Now build floating-point' ? >
Alternative suggestion: change "single precision" to "floating point" and then just drop the explanation of --enable-float because it should now be obvious, and maybe drop the additional explamation of what uses the threaded double library. ĸen -- The beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greates. -- du Garbandier -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
