[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#432378: [many packages] FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortranbegin

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr> [2007-07-15 04:42]:

> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> (09/07/2007):
> > Hi,
> > 
> > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386.
> > [...]
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortranbegin
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that installing gfortran-4.1 solves this problem. I guess it
> was previously pulled by some other packages, and that now gfortran-4.2
> is, but that this latter doesn't provide with -lgfortranbegin.
> 
> I also guess that adding gfortran-4.1 as a B-D is suboptimal, but it at
> least solves the FTBFS (not tested for octaviz, I've got no superfast
> box, but I really believe that this is fixed in the same way, feel free
> to remove the patch tag if I'm wrong); tagging accordingly.

Would you be interested in joining the Debian Octave Group [1]?  We are
lacking manpower in this moment and you could conrtibute by fixing the
problems that you diagnosed.

[1] http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org/

-- 
Rafael