Re: octave2.9 ftbfs during linking stage

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007 14:29:30 schrieb Wookey:
> On 2007-06-28 11:16 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007 10:55:07 schrieb Wookey:
> > > On 2007-06-26 17:54 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > >
> > > There have been issues with the gcc4.2 toolchain not building, which I
> > > understand are now fixed, but octave seems to be using gcc3.4 and I'm
> > > not aware of any recent linking problems there.
> >
> > No. It uses g77 for Fortan (thus the 3.4 stuff), but normal gcc otherwise
> > (which means gcc 4.2 currently).
>
> OK. (BTW for the new armel port all g77 stuff will be moved to
> gfortran, because gcc3.4/g77 doesn't support arm EABI, and isn't going
> to. I don't know if this will 'just work' for octave or not? I mention
> this here just because it seemed a good moment).

Quoting Octave's changelog.Debian.gz:
+ Switch back to g77 from gfortran (closes: #427257). 
      This has been discussed with the toolchain guys and is the easist
      solution for now, see
      http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2007/06/msg00024.html

Octave is fine with gfortran, however all underlying libraries must be 
compiled with gfortran as well. This is currently not the case (I 
consider -ff2c to be equivalent to g77).

> As I say I should be able to do this very soon, but not right now as
> my good machines are in bits.

No problem; I'm still waiting for Sparc buildds to catch up :)

	Thomas