Ruby floating point problem in FreeBSD 11.0-ALPHA1

[Carl Johnson]

Tom Vijlbrief <tvijlbrief at gmail.com> writes:

> I had similar issues (core dumps) with Python.
>
> Recompiling the ports fixed it for me.
>
> Note that portmaster gave me some issues, because the old port has to be deinstalled first. Just a "make" in the
> ports source did not work in all cases.
>
> What worked for me was:
>
> make deinstall reinstall clean
>
> In each /usr/ports/* directory, starting with the supporting libs

Thanks for the information, but I think I will wait for a while and see
if a new package build comes out that fixes the problem.  The RPi's are
slow enough that I hate to build all packages unless I have to.

> Op di 31 mei 2016 23:47 schreef Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org>:
>
>     Hello,
>    
>     I just upgraded an RPi2 system to the 11.0-ALPHA1 and noticed that a
>     fractional second sleep in ruby causes SIGABRT.  I assume that is due to
>     the softfp to hardfp transition, but it appears that the available
>     packages are still softfp.  I just checked and found that printing fp
>     numbers from ruby works.  Anybody have any comments about whether this
>     is expected due to the transition?
>    
>     Thanks for any information.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org