[Pkg-octave-devel] broken m68k build

[John W. Eaton]

For some time now, the m68k build of octave2.1 has been failing with

  /usr/bin/g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -Wall -W -Wshadow -O1 -g0 ls-mat5.cc -o pic/ls-mat5.o
  /tmp/cchqGuhc.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/cchqGuhc.s:20898: Error: operands mismatch -- statement `move.b %a4,%d1' ignored

I know that the proper fix for this problem is to fix the bug in the
compiler that is generating the bad code, but I'd also be willing to
take a look at the problem and see if I can come up with a
workaround.  To do that, I'd need ssh access to an m68k system with
all the current build tools.

jwe