[Bug-gsl] GSL fails to build on FreeBSD/Alpha

[Rob Byrnes]

Hi there,

Not sure if this interests you or not but gsl does not build on
FreeBSD/Alpha

# gmake CFLAGS="-mieee -mfp-rounding-mode=d -g -O" (-O2 is known to
produce optimiser bugs on this platform)

<snip>
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -mieee -mfp-rounding-mode=d -g -O
-c env.c >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .libs/env.lo env.lo
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I..
-mieee -mfp-rounding-mode=d -g -O -c -o fp.lo `test -f 'fp.c' || echo
'./'`fp.c
rm -f .libs/fp.lo
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -mieee -mfp-rounding-mode=d -g -O
-c fp.c  -fPIC -DPIC
In file included from fp.c:26:
fp-freebsd.c: In function `gsl_ieee_set_mode':
fp-freebsd.c:27: syntax error before `prec'
fp-freebsd.c:34: `prec' undeclared (first use in this function)
fp-freebsd.c:34: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fp-freebsd.c:34: for each function it appears in.)
fp-freebsd.c:34: `FP_PS' undeclared (first use in this function)
fp-freebsd.c:38: `FP_PD' undeclared (first use in this function)
fp-freebsd.c:42: `FP_PE' undeclared (first use in this function)
fp-freebsd.c:72: `FP_X_DNML' undeclared (first use in this function)
gmake[2]: *** [fp.lo] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/loop/gsl-1.4/ieee-utils'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/loop/gsl-1.4'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

address@hidden ~ % uname -a
FreeBSD erwin.homeunix.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Thu Nov 27
18:50:08 EST 2003     address@hidden:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ERWIN
alpha

address@hidden ~ % gcc -v
Using builtin specs.
gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]

Cheers,
Rob