Re: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages
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> > Even if gcc will soon adopt a patch to make -mieee the default,
> > there will be older versions of gcc around for a while. This is a
> > bug *now*, and there's no reason not to add the -mieee explicitly to
> > the compiler flags for the time being: it will just become a no-op
> > later once this is the gcc default.
>
> Ok, thanks, I already closed the bug report after Falk's reply, but
> I'm reopening it now, and will try to get the maintainer to
> use the flag or do it myself when the group maintenance gets up to
> speed.
I tried recompiling Konqueror on my machine a while back with the -mieee flag
to get rid of the SIGFPEs. What I discovered is that you actually have to
recompile most of KDE as well (i.e. all the libraries Konqueror depends on).
- -T
PS: I don't know what gcc is used on the boxes used to compile the packages,
but gcc-3.3 in the testing distribution has already been patched (a patched
gcc is easily identified by checking the gcc man page for a DEBIAN SPECIFIC
part under -mieee).
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Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe@uwo.ca -- WSC-)
Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics,
Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario,
GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada
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