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Re: (native build & other issues - Was: xvfb not built on vax...)



On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:18:10PM -0500, Brad Parker wrote:
> >     b) Groff chokes building certain .ps files - I thought Brad had
> >        tracked that down to a hypot issue, what ever happened with
> >        that?
> 
> mmm.  I found the problem but was unsure that to do.  My fix was to
> replace the hypot() call with a "local_hypot()" which did the right
> thing but did not cause an exception.
> 
> as I recall instead of doing something rational like SIGFPE the low level
> hypot code signaled an error with an illegal instruction.

Could you post a diff? I (and probably others) would like to test this.

Hans


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