[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#666142: Bug#666142: Bug#666142: Bug#666142: octave: Please support -mieee option to mkoctfile

[Thomas Weber]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:33:56AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Michael Cree <mcree at orcon.net.nz> [2012-04-01 13:27]:
> 
> > On 31/03/12 02:03, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >
> > > [snip] I haven't had time to look into it, but I suspect that the bug
> > > is actually in octave-octcdf, which shouldn't pass -mieee to
> > > mkoctfile in the first place.
> > 
> > I had wondered myself if the problem may actually be octave-octcdf's use
> > of -mieee!
> 
> I looked into the src/configure file of octave-octcdf.  There is
> nothing in it that would add explicitly the -mieee option.  It seems
> to appear from "mkoctfile -p CPPFLAGS", which does not introduce the
> -mieee on my system, but this may be different on alpha.  This is what
> I get on my i386 system:
> 
>     $ grep CPPFLAGS $(which mkoctfile) | grep ^:
>     : ${CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"}
> 
> Could anyone do the same on an alpha system?

This is precisely the reason why I want access to an unstable alpha
chroot! According to octave's build log, the mieee option is added to
XTRA_CFLAGS and XTRA_CXXFLAGS, but we need to know whether it ends up in
CPPFLAGS. And asking people, wait for their answer and then ask other
questions simply isn't productive.

	Thomas