Subject: bug#9568: Bug#642291: FTBFS on powerpc: misc/seq-long-double test fails, should be skipped

From: Michael Stone <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:30:47 -0400

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:18:47AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>The test fails because it doesn't pass $CFLAGS to the compiler. The attached
>patch fixes this, so the test is skipped as expected.

The point wasn't to skip the test, it was to fix the bug. :-) 
Unfortunately, the CFLAGS change doesn't do that after all. If anything, 
it's worse:

./seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 | head
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808
9223372036854775808

Before the CFLAGS change (add -mlong-double-64) it just did this:

./seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808    
9223372036854775808

whereas with 8.5 it did this:

seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808
9223372036854775807
9223372036854775808

(running on pescetti.d.o/powerpc)

Mike Stone