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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!mineng.dmpe.CSIRO.AU!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: 386bsd Xfree Message-ID: <1992Sep16.071706.2331@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <1949s2INNrmp@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 07:17:06 GMT Lines: 19 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------