[raspberry-vi] Re: Bingo!
- From: Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:00:14 +0000
It may be in the LSB but it wasn't on my desktop machine (Arch) when I
compiled 3.6.y.
So I guess either it's been added to the mix or the config of the kernel
has changed to a state where it is needed.
Mike
On 08/01/2014 21:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On January 8, 2014, Chris Norman wrote:
>> It's a maths command isn't it? GIves you 64 bit maths on 32 bit
>> architectures
> It gives you an arbitrary precision (not just 64-bit) calculator. I
> still use it as my calculator on the terminal when I don't have Python
> available on a target platform (if I do have python, I just fire it
> up and enter expressions there, as I don't usually have need for
> greater precision than what it provides).
>
> However, I was pretty sure that "bc" was one of the requirements for
> the Linux Standards Base (LSB) and a quick check of Debian's
> reverse-dependencies for "bc" suggests that this is the case. It
> seems that some stripped-down systems lack "bc" (I just tried with a
> Digi ConnectPort and it too lacked "bc", but strangely does include
> "dc").
>
> -tkc
>
>
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