[Pkg-octave-devel] octave2.1_2.1.71-7_i386.changes ACCEPTED

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Christian T. Steigies <cts at debian.org> [2005-11-05 09:29]:

> I am still trying to get a current octave2.1 compiled on m68k.
> I solved the hdf5 problem by manually compiling it, after the file that
> failed to compile would not do me the favour when I tried to debug it. hdf5
> for m68k is in the archive now. 
> 
> octave2.1 does not build on m68k because of special m68k exceptions for
> ofortran and optimization. The output of dpkg-architecture has changed
> recently:
> 
> (unstable)cts at aahz:~>dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE
> m68k-linux-gnu
> cts at aahz:~>dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE
> m68k-linux
> 
> So this change is needed (for m68k, I assume it is the same for arm) to at
> least start a build on m68k. Without it, it fails with:
>  checking for Fortran name-mangling scheme... configure: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program
> 
> [...]

Thanks for spotting this problem.  I already applied your patch to the SVN
sources.

> I am currently trying to build packages with this fix, [...]

I will wait until it is finished before uploading 2.1.71-8 to unstable.

> [...] will take a while to complete.

The last buildd that worked on m68k (2.1.71-2) took almost three days
to complete:

    Finished at 20050707-1035
    Build needed 59:55:45, 138080k disk space

Compare with the last ia64 buildd:

    Finished at 20051103-1115
    Build needed 00:49:56, 205588k disk space
    
It is two orders of magnitude faster!

-- 
Rafael