floating point exception 8 in awk

[Wilko Bulte]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 03:47:06PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Wilko Bulte <wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> > FAQ, more of less. If you rebuild & install your awk with -mieee from then
> > on everything works again. -mieee is now the default on alpha.
> 
> Yes, but this shouldn't happen inside the chroot since it's using
> either the awk from the buildworld preceding make relese, or the awk
> from the cross-tools stage of the chrooted buildworld, and both of
> these should have been built with -mieee...  though it seems they

Well, I had a similar problem and David suggested the trick I mentioned.
After that things just worked (awk wise that is) so I did not look back.

> weren't, I can't find the string 'mieee' anywhere in the build logs.

In my buildlogs there are plenty:

ds10#grep mieee MR.log | wc -l
   15466
ds10#


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