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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
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I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"

checking for bc... no

configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard
                  part of Unix since the 1970s.  Come back when your vendor
                  has grown a clue.

What is "bc"?

-- 
Joseph