Bug#136359: g77-2.95: [ALPHA] Please rebuild libg2c.a with -mieee
Package: g77-2.95
Version: 1:2.95.4-2
Severity: important
Greetings,
The f__cabs() function in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/libg2c.a fails with SIGFPE
under certain conditions on alpha. This is because alpha math is not
ieee-compliant. Therefore, on alpha please use -mieee to build that
library -- or at least the libf2c/libF77/cabs.c source within it --
which will force ieee compliance and prevent the SIGFPE at the cost of a
small speed penalty.
Unfortunately, this causes one of the lapack tests to fail, and prevents
that package from building, hence the important severity.
Thank you,
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-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux m4-043-9 2.2.19 #1 Sat Aug 25 15:38:03 EST 2001
alpha unknown
Versions of the packages g77-2.95 depends on:
ii g77 2.95.4-11 The GNU Fortran 77 compiler.
ii gcc-2.95 2.95.4-2 The GNU C compiler.
ii libc6.1 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
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