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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: 386bsd Xfree
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 07:17:06 GMT
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In article <1949s2INNrmp@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
>Folks,
>I suspect there's folks out there with a '387 and folks without.
>I suspect further that the X11 server and basic stuff is linked with -lm.
>Well, the standard libm.a is really *slow* and since there will be quite
>a few of us who have a co-processor, may I suggest/request that someone
>in the know (and with enough disk space) re-compile X and put the object
>files in a sensible place ?

The soon-to-be-released XFree86 1.1 will include a link-kit consisting
of all the libraries/objects required to re-link a server.  With this it
will be possible to link with a libm.a different from the standard one.

David
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