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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Anybody else using GPL_MATH ?
Date: 28 Jul 1994 20:24:06 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <CtMEpt.y3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Alec Habig <ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu> wrote:
>>in the kernel. Test programs pass without errors now, but now ps aux is now
>>broken, or something is broken. When I do a ps aux, the started time for all
>>proccesses shows as 1jan70 or at the epoch as far as I recall. Anyone else 
>>have the same problem? 
>
>Yes, me too.  I plan on changing to my 387 processor Real Soon Now, and will
>see if this goes away.

Re-compile the affected programs and libutil with -DGPL_MATH_EMULATE.
The problem is that somebody made the length of the user structure
depend on whether this is installed or not, so the utilities that use
the user structure need to be re-compiled to know about it.

Should be FITNR.

-GAWollman

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