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.
The simplest solution may just be to depends on m68k _and_ f2c on all architectures. Inelegant, but at least a Fortran compiler will be found in all cases. 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]
