Re: pkg/48980: cad/kicad needs newer GCC, build fails on netbsd-5/i386

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/48980: cad/kicad needs newer GCC, build fails on
 netbsd-5/i386
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 05:37:31 +0000

 On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:20:05PM +0000, John D. Baker wrote:
  >  The recent changes to "devel/boost-libs" cause "cad/kicad" to attempt
  >  to build "lang/gcc45", so that aspect of this PR has been addressed.
  >  
  >  There remains the issue of missing "fabsl()" in netbsd-5.
 
 Unless it's someplace where the extra precision is critical, stuffing
 in #define fabsl fabs should make it build. In cad/ it might be
 something where it's critical, though. (Most of the time, people just
 stuff in long double because they think more precision must be good.)
 
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 David A. Holland
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