[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#855430: examl: FTBFS on non-x86: unrecognized command line option ‘-msse3’

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Alexandros,

I have packaged examl for Debian and this is the first bug report the
package received.  As far as I'm reading the Makefile and docs the
-msse3 switch is effectively needed in the code.  The only solution I
see to close this bug report is to not provide the binaries resulting
from those makefiles that are containing the -msse3 switch on those
architectures that do not know it.

Could you please confirm this suspicion?

Kind regards and thanks for providing examl as free software

           Andreas.

PS: If your lab provides other code you consider important for
    bioinformatics please give me a hint to add it to the Debian
    package pool as well.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 05:45:51PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Source: examl
> Version: 3.0.18-1
> Severity: important
> Justification: fails to build from source
> 
> Builds of examl for non-x86 architectures have been failing with
> 
>   gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-msse3’
> 
> or similar errors.  Please remove this flag altogether, as it limits
> the portability of the resulting binaries even on x86.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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