Re: Test failures on legacy Darwin/powerpc

[Sevan Janiyan]

On 09/11/2023 18:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> If I recall correctly, those old PowerMac use 128-bit floats from
> IEEE754 by default.
>
> I think you should build with `-mlong-double-64` on the old PowerMacs.


Thank you for the hint, that did the trick on 10.4 (G5) & 10.5 (G4)
PASS test-float (exit status: 0)

Should m4/float_h.m4 be modified to pass -mlong-double-64 on 
Darwin/powerpc or it's left to the operator?
(I'm happy to attempt the change, just unsure)

Sevan