RE: grip needs -mieee gcc flag on Alpha
Chances are, this is a lurking bug due to an uninitialized floating
point variable. Have you tried debugging the executable to catch the
SEGV? So, "-mieee" is just "masking" the root cause of the problem.
Jeff Donsbach
Partner Engineering
Compaq Computer Corp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Larrick [mailto:dougl@charter.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Fwd: grip needs -mieee gcc flag on Alpha
>
>
> FYI, submitted by me as bug #127231.
>
> -Doug
>
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:39:10 -0500
> From: Doug Larrick <doug@jekyl.ddts.net>
> Reply-To: Doug Larrick <doug@jekyl.ddts.net>
> Subject: grip needs -mieee gcc flag on Alpha
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
>
> Package: grip
> Version: 2.96-4
> Severity: important
>
> grip needs to supply '-mieee' as part of CFLAGS on the Alpha platform,
> otherwise it dies with 'Floating point exception' when
> starting to rip.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: alpha
> Kernel: Linux jekyl 2.4.16 #1 Mon Dec 3 21:36:56 EST 2001 alpha
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
>
> Versions of packages grip depends on:
> ii libc6.1 2.2.4-7 GNU C Library:
> Shared libraries an
> ii libcdparanoia0 3a9.8-4 Shared libraries
> for cdparanoia (r
> ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-3 The GLib library
> of C routines
> ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-9 The GIMP Toolkit
> set of widgets fo
> ii xlibs 4.1.0-11 X Window System
> client libraries
>
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