[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#746924: octave FTBFS on alpha: invalid argument -mieee passed to moc-qt4

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 20:00:44 -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:25:01 +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> > octave FTBFS on alpha, with the following:
> >
> > ( echo '#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H'; echo '#include <config.h>'; echo '#endif'; moc-qt4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..   -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mieee   src/m-editor/file-editor-interface.h ) > src/m-editor/moc-file-editor-interface.cc-t
> > moc: Invalid argument
> 
> Thanks for your bug report. Your analysis seems right to me. I have
> reported this upstream, please follow up there if you have additional
> comments (although it may yet go further upstream to gnulib from
> there).

When you get a chance, can you do a test rebuild on alpha using the
upstream proposed fix for this bug:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/raw-rev/a5add7b660ac

This will help verify that the proposed fix works as expected.

Thanks,

-- 
mike