Everything built for alpha should use -mieee. It is not need on most other architrectures, but it is almost a requirement for the alpha architecture. This has been a subject of lengthy discussion on several mailing list.
I hope this helps. --George On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:49 am, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > > I strongly object. Often -mieee masks real programming errors, like > divisons by zero. I'd rather go for the following strategy: If the > programm is not time critical, and upstream is unwilling to deal with > those problems than -mieee can be added *for that package*. Otherwise > many programms run fine without or the maintainer/upstream is willing > to work those problems out. I've already reported and helped to fix > several packages which could have been "repaired" by using -mieee; and > I do not own an alpha to slow it down with -mieee just because it is > so easy to (not) fix the bugs. > > So please contact the package owners in question and check if they are > aware of the problems and/or if fixes are available. Better yet, use > the BTS. In the case of large pieces of code which are only run on > destop style of computers and which are fast moving (e.g. in rapid > developement) -mieee might indeed be sensible. > > If you insist on -mieee than set up an autobuilder (e.g. pbuilder or > simmilar) where you can set up specific options like this. > > Greetings > > Helge
