Re: [xml] trionan.c requires -mieee for gcc/alpha

[David Starks-Browning <starksb ebi ac uk>]

On Monday 4 Mar 02, Bjorn Reese writes:
> From the XPath specification, section 3.5:
>
>   "A number can have any double-precision 64-bit format IEEE 754 value
>   [IEEE 754]. These include a special "Not-a-Number" (NaN) value,
>   positive and negative infinity, and positive and negative zero."

Oh right.  Sorry.

> > I guess it's easy enough to add -mieee to CFLAGS when building on this
> > platform, but couldn't it be configure's job somehow?
>
> Yes. In order to add it, we need to know the output of "config.guess"
> on your platform 

alphaev67-dec-osf5.1

> (if you look at configure.in, you will notice that
> it already handles certain combinations of compiles and platforms).

Oh right.  Sorry.  (Yikes, that's two!)

This patch will probably work:

=================================================================
--- configure.in.orig   Wed Feb 20 10:24:44 2002
+++ configure.in        Mon Mar  4 16:40:52 2002
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
 else
     CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wall"
     case "${host}" in
-          alpha*-*-linux* )
+          alpha*-*-* )
               CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -mieee"
               ;;
     esac
=================================================================

Regards,
David