[gentoo-user] bc only does integer division

[gentoo-user] bc only does integer division

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello!

When I called "bc -l", I used to be able to do proper divisions,
ie. 1/4 returned 0.25. But now:

alexander@blatt /all $ bc -l
bc 1.06.94
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
1/4
0

sys-devel/bc-1.06.94

Any idea what's going wrong here?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:05:38 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> When I called "bc -l", I used to be able to do proper divisions,
> ie. 1/4 returned 0.25. But now:

Same here, I put =sys-devel/bc-1.06.94 in /etc/portage/package.mask.


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Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division

[Alex Schuster]

Alexander Skwar writes:

> When I called "bc -l", I used to be able to do proper divisions,
> ie. 1/4 returned 0.25. But now:
>
> alexander@blatt /all $ bc -l
> bc 1.06.94
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> 1/4
> 0

> Any idea what's going wrong here?

Yes, this is a known bug. 1.06.95 will fix this issuet, but that might  
take a while, since the bug is known since june.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136643

The stable version 1.06-r6 is working fine, so I suggest you  
downgrade.

        Alex
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[gentoo-user] Re: bc only does integer division

[Alexander Skwar]

· Alex Schuster <Wonko@wonkology.org>:

> Yes, this is a known bug. 1.06.95 will fix this issuet, but that might  
> take a while, since the bug is known since june.
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136643
> 
> The stable version 1.06-r6 is working fine, so I suggest you  
> downgrade.

Thanks. I'll follow your advice.

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] bc only does integer division

[Neil Bothwick]

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On 04 Sep 2006 22:55:00 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:

> Yes, this is a known bug. 1.06.95 will fix this issuet, but that might  
> take a while, since the bug is known since june.

1.06.95 is in portage now and the problem is indeed fixed.


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