configure complains about library problems with long double

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Dec 27 10:33:39 EST 2005


Quoting David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:

> My latest configure run (and maybe all of them before that!) sent me  
> a warning:
>
> checking for working long double with more range or precision than  
> double... yes
> ...
> checking for strtold... yes
> checking if we must prototype strtold ourselves... yes
> configure: WARNING: Long double support disabled because of library  problems
>
> Do I need to worry about long double support anywhere besides graphs? 
>  Should I be trying to resolve my 'library problems'?
>
> Mac 10.4.3, gcc 3.3

Nah, you should be fine with this.  I honestly don't even know
why we're checking for long double support, as all our internal
math is integer math.

-derek

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