On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:32:46PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:56:58PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:26:18PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > Package: libgsl0-dev
> > > Version: 1.7-1
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Justification: Steve Langasek said so.
>
> > He has a stack of of 'get out of jail free' cards I owe him, so I can't yell
> > that loud but ...
>
> ;)
>
> > > bogofilter has been failing to build on alpha, and I am told to blame
> > > GSL.
>
> > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=bogofilter&arch=alpha
>
> > ... that looks like it failed over its 'make test' call. What do gsl and I
> > have to do with that? Swing the cluebat, please.
>
> The floating point exception shown in the build log occurs in the libgsl
> code; confirmed via tests on my alpha. FPEs on alpha are almost always
> caused by not building with -mieee. With gcc-4.0, upstream has again
> decided, for God knows what reason, that -mieee should not be enabled by
> default on alpha, which is a regression versus gcc-3.3, so libgsl0 will need
> to be explicitly built with CFLAGS=-mieee on alpha. (bogofilter itself
> already does this.)
Ack, that is a lot clearer. And alpha is the only arch that needs it?
Dirk, adding another card to the pile
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