Hello, On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:23:22PM -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: > 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. To be honest, almost all of our computational boxes are EV6+, so in *my* case this would be tolarable. > 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).* Maybe you could post the list. And ask on debian-devel about mass bug filling. > 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). If that would be possible, great. > > 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? This would be an option too, but then we should introduce "+mieee" or something similar. Greetings Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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