Okay. So your problem is that you have an EV5 and you don't want me pushing though something that will slow your numerical simulations way down. That makes sense.
My problem is as follows. Right now I've got 44 packages pinned at various releases that I've recompiled with -mieee to get working. I did this about three weeks ago. I am now running into problems where I can't install package x because I don't have latest release of library y (i.e. library y, or something library y depends on, is one of my 44 pinned packages). I don't want to spend a great deal of time compiling, bug reporting, and waiting, so I would like to take care of my current 44 packages (and all possible future ones) with one email to the 'package maintainers list' (i.e. something along the lines of please add the original bit of code I posted to your rules files).* I think then (correct me if I'm wrong), we are agreed that this is an okay course to take for desktop application (i.e. not ATLAS/BLAS, LAPACK, etc)? We can, of course, also tag any other specific applications that do a lot of numerical crunching and that -mieee slow down noticeably (now and/or as they arise). So then, the only thing left is that I'm really quite clueless about the Debian process? How do I get this change made to the non-numerically intensive application packages? Is there such a thing as the 'package maintainers list' to post an email about -mieee to? Are the Alpha builds maintained by separate people? Is their a guideline for new package maintainers I could get supplemented with -mieee info? Could we just put it in the GCC specs file so it becomes the default on all packages that don't specifically turn it off? Thanks & Later -T *It is not so easy to tell if it's the main package or one of the libraries it depends on (or both) that has to be compiled with -mieee. This makes for a very time consuming cycle of recompilations. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada
