Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> >  Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270?  I can't reproduce it (I think
> > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an idea
> > where it could be.  I haven't gotten any other reports of this, which
> > makes me wonder if maybe it could be the reporter's system.
> It's an Alpha thing.  I started looking into this bug a few weeks ago, but
> got busy with other things.  One thing I do know that needs to be done is
> adding "-mieee" to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS on Alpha.  It would probably be
> best to add this into the autoconf parts of the package rather than the
> rules script (which is how I was experimenting with it).
Just FYI, my autoconf macro which does this:

AC_CHECKING([whether -mieee is needed to avoid SIGFPE on divide by zero])
case $build/$CC in
   alpha*/gcc* )
   build_gcc_alpha=yes
   AC_MSG_RESULT([yes, will be used for libpetscgraphics])
   ;;
   * )
   build_gcc_alpha=no
   AC_MSG_RESULT([not needed])
   ;;
esac
AM_CONDITIONAL(GCC_ALPHA, test x$build_gcc_alpha != xno)

Zeen,
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