Re: new ARAnyM with better FPU

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Petr,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:34, Petr Stehlik <pstehlik@sophics.cz> wrote:
> Thorsten Glaser píše v St 21. 03. 2012 v 09:07 +0000:
>> >ARAnyM Debian maintainer is working on updating the package in Debian
>> >sid as well.
>>
>> OK, great. I’ll wait for that, upgrade the box with sid on
>> it and will backport to *shudder* hardy
>
> Well, beware: Ubuntu < 10.10 (including the 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx) does
> not have the necessary libmpfr3+. That also means that the Ubuntu Lucid
> packages I have prepared at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/aranym/files/aranym/0.9.12/
>
> do NOT contain the new MPFR based FPU core made by Andreas.
>
> So if you really want to try out the new ARAnyM FPU on your Hardy make
> sure you'll backport libmpfr3+ there first.

Thanks!

I've just installed the binary for Lucid, and now cp/mv/du from coreutils
work again (they failed with out-of-memory errors under Ubuntu's 0.9.9).
I guess that was due to the CAS/CAS2 bugs?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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