[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#292917: needs to depend on f2c on m68k?

[Adam Conrad]

Package: octave2.1-headers
Version: 2.1.64-1
Severity: important

I've seen several octave-related packages fail to build on m68k, with
errors like so:
----
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf2c
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
----

If it's octave2.1-headers (well, /usr/bin/mkoctfile) that is introducing
this extra linker flag, perhaps it should also depend on f2c (on m68k only),
so packages building against octave2.1 don't have to special case m68k
each time on their own.

... Adam

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.29
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages octave2.1-headers depends on:
ii  atlas3-base-dev [liblapa 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
pn  fftw3-dev                                Not found.
ii  g++                      4:3.3.5-1       The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g77                      4:3.3.5-1       The GNU Fortran 77 compiler
ii  lapack3-dev [liblapack-3 3.0.20000531a-5 library of linear algebra routines
pn  libhdf5-serial-dev | lib                 Not found.
ii  libncurses5-dev          5.4-4           Developer's libraries and docs for
pn  libreadline5-dev                         Not found.
pn  octave2.1                                Not found.
ii  refblas3-dev [libblas-3. 1.2-6           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3