[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#666142: Bug#666142: octave: Please support -mieee option to mkoctfile

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:30:11PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> On 29/03/12 17:20, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> > Source: octave
> > Version: 3.6.1-4
> > 
> > octave-octcdf FTBFS on Alpha. (maybe on sh4 too.)
> >  http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-octcdf&arch=alpha&ver=1.1.4-1&stamp=1332884789
> > 
> > Because mkoctfile does not support mieee option, this problem happens.
> 
> Note that the -mieee option is on by default in the Debian version of
> the gcc compiler on Alpha.  So adding -mieee is not strictly necessary
> for a build on Debian Alpha, but I am guessing that it may have been put
> in octave-octcdf by upstream to guarantee that it is used whoever might
> be compiling octave-octcdf.

How can I get access to an unstable sid chroot on alpha? Is DSA involved
in this as outlined in http://dsa.debian.org/doc/install-req/?

I need the build dependencies for both octave and octave-odepkg
installed.

Thanks
	Thomas