On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM, William G. Scott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:54 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> William G. Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Apparently gmp compiled on my G5 ppc is not compatible with a G4....
>>
>> Yes, this is an old problem. Often it gives bus errors or illegal
>> instruction errors. The G5 build apparently uses ppc machine
>> instructions that don't exist on G4.
>>
>> In principle, gmp has some code to ask for a less optimized build ("-
>> force_cpusubtype_ALL" compiler flag), but this doesn't work as
>> intended, probably because the flag is not used when the dylibs are
>> linked.
>>
>> --
>> Martin
>>
>
> Is there a way to deal with this gracefully in a binary debian
> redistribution?I think that's what the -64bit variant is supposed to handle. (There's a virtual package called "64bit-cpu".) It's possible that the packages which depend on gmp may need their dependencies adjusted, though. -- - Charles Lepple ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
