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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]