[Pkg-octave-devel] m68k okay, arm not
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd@debian.org
Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:39:10 -0600
On 28 February 2005 at 21:19, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| On 28 February 2005 at 09:29, John W. Eaton wrote:
| | On 28-Feb-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:
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| | | 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.
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| | I'd prefer to avoid embedding any more special compiler flags in the
| | build scripts. Why is -O0 needed? Is that compiler bug?
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| I think that's a fair statement, and particularly for things numerical, with
| some emphasis on Fortran. Though sometimes C++ fails too.
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| The changelogs for both R and Octave are pretty full with references to m68k.
Oops: The __Debian package__ changelogs is what I meant. Didn't mean to
implicate the trusted upstream authors of either R or Octave.
Sorry, Dirk
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