From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Nov 24 21:50:20 1996
Subject: re: Libieee?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mike Blatchley <mblatch at orci dot com>
Cc: John Verzani <verzani at postbox dot csi dot cuny dot edu>, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:49:40 -0600

On 23-Nov-1996, Mike Blatchley <mblatch at orci dot com> wrote:

: My latest i386 RedHat Linux installation also no longer has libieee,
: which is being looked for because of the gcc option "-mieee-fp".
: The word I have received is that all the libieee 
: functionality has been moved to the new libm.  So, as an interim "fix", I 
: copy /usr/lib/libm.a to octave-1.93/libieee.a  {or wherever the root of 
: your source tree is.                ^^^^^^^^^
: 
: Maybe not a clean fix, but it got me compiled!

Another thing to do is to fix gcc so that it doesn't add -lieee if
-mieee-fp is specified.  I believe you can do this by simply removing

  %{mieee-fp:-lieee}

from the gcc specs file ($prefix/gcc-lib/$arch/specs).

jwe