[Pkg-octave-devel] m68k okay, arm not

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Feb-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:

| The octave2.1_2.1.66-1 package was correctly built by the m68k build daemon
| last night. The gcc/g++ version was the same as the last time it failed
| (g++-3.3_1:3.3.5-8), so I suspect that what made the buildd succeed was the
| change in the -O compiler flag from -O1 to -O0.  This was Dirk's suggestion.
| Thanks Dirk!
| 
| [To JWE:] John, you might want to make this fix upstream for the m68k-linux
| architecture.

I'd prefer to avoid embedding any more special compiler flags in the
build scripts.  Why is -O0 needed?  Is that compiler bug?

jwe