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  • bc-7.0.3

    From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Nick Boel on Tue May 5 21:10:20 2026
    Hey Nick!

    Found the c99 culprit as per subject. The fix looks like this;

    CC='gcc -std=c99' ./configure --prefix=/usr -G -O3 -r

    Works like a charm. :-)

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    Maurice

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  • From Nick Boel@1:154/700 to Maurice Kinal on Tue May 5 17:33:11 2026
    Hey Maurice!

    On Tue, May 05 2026 16:10:20 -0500, you wrote:

    Found the c99 culprit as per subject. The fix looks like this;

    CC='gcc -std=c99' ./configure --prefix=/usr -G -O3 -r

    Works like a charm. :-)

    I'm not sure what "bc-7.0.3" is, but my package manager seems to offer this:

    Packages (1) bc-1.08.2-1

    Not sure if that's even the same thing or not, since the version is way different.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Nick Boel on Tue May 5 23:25:53 2026
    Hey Nick!

    I'm not sure what "bc-7.0.3" is, but my package manager seems to
    offer this:
    Packages (1) bc-1.08.2-1

    Exactly the same but totally different. They are both source to a shell based calculator, except your version is really old. bc-7.0.3 is a github and is supposedly more up to date. However now that you bring it up I really don't see any issues with bc-1.08.2.

    Дуже груви,
    Maurice

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  • From Nick Boel@1:154/10 to Maurice Kinal on Tue May 5 19:43:00 2026
    Hey Maurice!

    On Tue, 05 May 2026 23:25:52 , you wrote:

    Packages (1) bc-1.08.2-1

    However now that you bring it up I really don't see any issues with bc-1.08.2.

    I don't use it, but mayhaps the arch maintainers don't actually maintain it any more, or it was replaced by something more sought after. Who knows.

    Regards,
    Nick

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