Raku is the new name of Perl 6, a language inspired by Perl and compiled for a virtual machine. When preparing FreeBSD ports for the Raku ecosystem, I’ve noticed those depend on LibTomMath, with IEEE754 floating point format support.
Let’s try to call zef, a tool to manage modules (dependencies) in Raku:
$ raku … zef …
ld-elf.so.1: //usr/local/lib/libmoar.so: Undefined symbol "mp_set_double"
(MoarVM is the virtual machine running the Raku bytecode)
When building the port:bn_mp_set_double.c:44:6: warning: "mp_set_double implementation is
only available on platforms with IEEE754 floating point format"
[-W#warnings]
The source code protects mp_set_double function with a check for
STDC_IEC_559 defined.
This is well supported by the OS, as documented in man 3 ieee, but the compilers clang and gcc don’t seem to define it. On the Linux platform, glibc defines it.
The library refactored the way to detect STDC_IEC_559, but this isn’t released yet.
Pietro Cerutti, who maintains the FreeBSD port for LibTomMath, merged this better detection patch, so w can benefit of those features right now.
So you can know use mp_set_double on FreeBSD machines too, and the zef package manager.
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