On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hold off upgrading your Alphas for a moment. > > Something broke libc recently that results in > > (at least) floating point exceptions from > > awk(1) (this is not related to today's awk > > upgrade). > > > > I've been able to reproduce this on beast.freebsd.org > > by building the fresh libc.a and linking awk with > > it, and running a test case. > > > > I haven't been able to reproduce this with 8th > > March libc, so the time window for the breakage > > is low. > > > > I suspect the recent gtdoa commit to libc; we > > will know that is less than an hour. > > Whups. You're probably using a locale in which the decimal point > is not a period. In that case, please use the patches I just > posted to the following thread, which I just CC'd you.
Ruslan has been using my Alphas to test this and there is no locale set on those. > If it really is an Alpha issue and not a locale issue, awk is > probably dying on one of the scripts used by the kernel build. > If you could send me the command line that causes awk to die, > that would be helpful. I'm running a kernel build on beast > right now to see if I can reproduce a problem. I have a meeting > in a few minutes, but I'll be back in five hours or so to follow > up on this. -- | / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
