factor compiled without bignum support
Bug #696618 reported by
Mechanical snail
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coreutils (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| coreutils (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
factor (from GNU coreutils) in Ubuntu Lucid appears to be compiled without bignum support. According to the info page:
If `factor' is built without using GNU MP, only single-precision
arithmetic is available, and so large numbers (typically 2^64 and
above) will not be supported.
Example:
user@host:/$ factor 123456789098765
factor: `12345678909876
In order to limit dependencies of the basic coreutils package, perhaps a bignum-supporting version should be packaged separately.
Revision history for this message
| C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Changed in coreutils (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in coreutils (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in coreutils (Debian): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Indeed, gmp is not being used, so I am confirming this bug. I am not sure why, though, and will check upstream.