Re: buildd failure for sparc - floating point encoding?

[Helen Faulkner <helen_ml_faulkner@yahoo.co.uk>]

> > Does anyone know whether sparc uses the same encoding as one of these examples?
>
> Given that most of the machines sold by Sun are based on SPARC chips and
> most of the SPARC chips sold are sold by Sun I would guess the 'sun'
> setting is what you are after.
[...]

Thanks very much Martin (and others)!   I'm now using the sun setting, and the 
package is compiling, at least past the point where it broke before.

I will certainly be talking to upstream about the best way to implement a fix 
for the problem.

Helen.