Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1ubuntu4 Severity: normal User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty
*** /tmp/forwarded-from-ubuntu-w99ESc.txt This bug report was also filed in Ubuntu and can be found at http://launchpad.net/bugs/696618 The description, from Mechanical snail, follows: factor (from GNU coreutils) in Ubuntu Lucid appears to be compiled without bignum support. According to the info page: If `factor' is built without using GNU MP, only single-precision arithmetic is available, and so large numbers (typically 2^64 and above) will not be supported. Example: u...@host:/$ factor 123456789098765432123456789 factor: `123456789098765432123456789' is too large In order to limit dependencies of the basic coreutils package, perhaps a bignum-supporting version should be packaged separately. --x--x--x-- GMP support is conditional: if 'configure' detects it, it will build for GMP, otherwise no support. All that would be needed is to add 'libgmp3-dev' as a build-depends. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers natty-updates APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty-proposed'), (500, 'natty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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