[postgis-devel] Fixing floating point precision issues under gcc

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 15/12/11 10:44, Nicklas Avén wrote:

> wow, great!
>
> Is that the issue that have forced us to round most of the regression
> tests? I think x86 has been the problem most of the times.
>
> What about this ticket:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/503
>
> It would be very nice if could get rid of that one I think.
>
>
> Regards
> Nicklas

Yes, I believe this could be related. The quick test would be to run 
configure and then manually add -fexcess-precision=standard to CFLAGS in 
liblwgeom/Makefile and PG_CPPFLAGS in postgis/Makefile and then do a 
complete make install and test once again.


HTH,

Mark.

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