Bug#292917: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#292917: needs to depend on f2c on m68k?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 January 2005 at 21:47, Adam Conrad wrote:
| Package: octave2.1-headers
| Version: 2.1.64-1
| Severity: important
| 
| I've seen several octave-related packages fail to build on m68k, with
| errors like so:
| ----
| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf2c
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| ----
| 
| If it's octave2.1-headers (well, /usr/bin/mkoctfile) that is introducing
| this extra linker flag, perhaps it should also depend on f2c (on m68k only),
| so packages building against octave2.1 don't have to special case m68k
| each time on their own.

Good point, and r-base-dev uses


  Depends: [...]  g77 | m68k, f2c | not+m68k, type-handling, [...]

which uses a special sort-of virtual package type-handling along with these
funky alternatives encoding m68k behaviour (use f2c) and its opposite (g77).

I can't remember why I never added that to octave2.1-headers. It is worth a try.

Dirk

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