Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:37:24 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Nov 29 2007 19:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C >>>> compiler. >>> alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-) >>> >> Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing. It's a POSIX utility. > > People try building linux on not-so-posix systems these days... >
Are you talking about Cygwin (which has bc prepackaged)? Even if not, I would be *extremely* surprised to find something that can build the Linux kernel which can't build GNU bc out of the box.
In fact, I would be rather surprised to find that the Linux kernel builds on anything which doesn't come prepackaged with bc.
-hpa
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