Failure building GSL-1.9 on FPU-less powerpc

[Brian Gough]

At Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:57:37 +0400,
Sergei Poselenov wrote:
> 
> Investigation shows that the problem is that the "configure"
> script chose the "gnuppc" IEEE arithmetic interface type by default,
> which assume the FPU is present on the target and included
> fp-gnuppc.c into the build.
> 
> Then the compilation failed because fp-gnuppc.c tries to operate
> the FPU hardware constants from fpu_control.h for FPU-aware
> powerpcs; these constants are absent on my system.
> 
> How can I build GSL?

You can comment out the HAVE_GNUPPC_IEEE_INTERFACE line in config.h to
disable that part.

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Brian Gough

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