Hello folks,
I recently uploaded package mpfr (multiple precision floating point),
which runs a test suite after building.
The M68k buildd machine fails the test suite (see below for log
URL) and it appears that the underlying problem is that the machine
doesn't support IEEE-754 floating point.
Is there a mechanism (compiler args?) to enable IEEE-754? Or is
it not possible on this platform?
Thanks,
-Steve
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:57:51 +0200
From: Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mpfr 2.0.3: bugfix for test suite
To: "Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi,
On 2004-10-26 21:14:40 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> The test suite is broken for non-IRIX mips systems. Below is a patch
> that I believe fixes it. It allows Debian mips machines to build the
> package.
Thanks. I've applied it to the 2.1+ versions.
> Incidentally, the test suite fails miserably for debian/M68k machines
> [http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mpfr&ver=2.0.3-2&arch=m68k&stamp=1098778660&file=log&as=raw]
Until MPFR 2.0.3, most tests assumed that the IEEE-754 standard was
supported. This has been fixed in MPFR 2.1.0 (not released yet) and
above.
The 2.1.0-rc1 can be found here:
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.1.0/mpfr-2.1.0-rc1.tar.gz
The rc2 should be for tomorrow if nothing wrong appears in the
automatical tests.
Regards,
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