Re: Bug#351706: m-tx: FTBFS on mips and mipsel

[Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>]

Hi,

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>>Can someone with the necessary privileges on a mips{,el} development
>>host try to revert #322924 (by using g77 instead of gfortran in
>>debian/control and debian/rules), install that pmx and try to rebuild m-tx?
> 
> 
> It works with pmx (gfortran) and fails with pmx (g77).

Did you mean it the other way around? Because ...

>>If this works, what should we do about this issue? g77 seems to be
>>obsoleted (not provided by gcc-4.x anymore) and should be completely
>>replaced by gfortran. However, the latter doesn't support Fortran 77
>>completely, yet.
> 
> 1. Switch back to g77 for now

... this wouldn't make sense, then.

> 2. Talk to gfortran upstream to get this fixed.  Ah, good news, it
> works when I compile pmx with gfortran-4.1.
> 
> So the solution is really easy: go back to g77 now and switch to
> gfortran-4.1 when we have GCC 4.1 in unstable.

OK, thanks. When will this be? Maybe we can just wait for GCC 4.1 in
unstable?

Roland