Re: Reopening this bug
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> writes:
>
> Aha. Smoking gun. I don't know exactly what the issue is/was, but a while
> back (first of the year or so) I spent an evening on IRC with someone figuring
> out that the problem was something about the compiler, maybe an optimizer
Ahh, I got this from Raul, thought he had talked to you:
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> Thanks to Joel, I think I have a solution for this bug (just use
<math.h>
> instead of <nan.h>), but I don't know how to test it.
I told him about faure and lully.
Incidentally, I run the Alpha autobuilder, so it was built on my
system :-) If this turns out to be the problem, I would suggest
applying a patch in your package so that this same problem doesn't
recur everytime the package gets rebuilt on alpha.
Thanks,
John
> problem, I really don't recall, when the package was built for alpha by the
> auto-builder. They built a version that worked, and uploaded it... my guess
> is that my uploading a new version triggered the same but in the auto
> builders? Sorry, I don't remember who was helping chase this, it's been a
> while.
>
> Can you try recompiling from the source package on your system and seeing if
> the problem persists? I'll CC debian-alpha on this in case someone else wants
> to jump in with some insight.
>
> I'm on my way out of town (to Toronto) for the weekend, but will be happy to
> help chase this down starting Monday night, if need be.
>
> Bdale
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