On 30 January 2005 at 21:47, Adam Conrad wrote: | 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.
Good point, and r-base-dev uses Depends: [...] g77 | m68k, f2c | not+m68k, type-handling, [...] which uses a special sort-of virtual package type-handling along with these funky alternatives encoding m68k behaviour (use f2c) and its opposite (g77). I can't remember why I never added that to octave2.1-headers. It is worth a try. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
