Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > With the appended patch, koji ate it up: >> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=886652 >> >> Great! Thanks a lot, Markus. >> >> Bruno, FYI, Markus discovered that >> an upcoming idutils release fails to compile on ppc-based systems: >> (details here http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=886563) > > Thanks for the report. Your build pages indicate a cross-compiling build, > and in this setting I can actually reproduce it. (While Nelson Beebe's > report says "Apple Mac OS X 10.x PowerPC", I could not reproduce any > problem on MacOS X 10.3.9.) > > $ uname -sr > Darwin 9.3.0 > $ gcc --version| head -1 > i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) > $ cat foo.c > static long double one = 1.0L * 1.0L; > static long double quarter = 0.5L * 0.5L; > static long double third = 1.0L / 3.0L; > #include <float.h> > long double minus_zero = -LDBL_MIN * LDBL_MIN; > $ gcc -arch ppc -c foo.c > foo.c:3: error: initializer element is not constant > foo.c:5: error: initializer element is not constant > > I don't much like the requirement to define minus_zero in every function > that needs it. Therefore I'm applying this. It also fixes the problem, > and takes care of the special compiler bugs in HP-UX cc and in IRIX 6.2 cc > (see <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-10/msg00116.html>). > > > 2008-10-17 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * m4/signbit.m4 (gl_SIGNBIT_TEST_PROGRAM): On platforms other than > HP-UX and IRIX, use -0.0L. ...
That solved my problem. Thanks!
