On 22 Dec, Alex Sutcliffe wrote: > I am trying to compile and run a c/c++ program on my woody box. It > compiles fine but when I run it, it dies with a floating point error. > Admittedly there are several compiler warnings. I have succesfully > compiled and run it on an SGI o2 running irix 6.5. There is a vendor > supplied makefile with suggested flags for different platforms. I have > heard reports that by simply using the suggestions one can get this > thing to work on Mandrake 9.1.
If the warnings related to arithmetic operations, then they're probably significant. > So what differences between woody and mandrake 9.1 should I explore? gcc version differences; glib version differences. > Also, the vendor of this thing is fairly sgi centric. What sort of > portability problems do I need to consider? I wouldn't be surprised if the SGI used quite different floating point hardware, and they may have written their code non-portably. Do they formally support Linux? Have you tried a Google search to see if others have had the same problem? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
