gretl 1.9.14-2 requires AVX

[allin]

The build of gretl 1.9.14-2 for i386 contains AVX instructions and so will not run on
computers that don't support AVX ("Illegal instruction"). This includes all CPUs
from prior to 2011.

The configure script for gretl offers an option to disable AVX, and this should be
used when building the package for Ubuntu. The appropriate flag is

--disable-avx

[allin (cottrell)]

A little more clarification/detail.

This problem is specific to the i386 build of gretl, the amd64
build is OK. What's going on is this: the gretl configure script
checks for AVX capability on the build host and activates AVX
if it's supported. It so happened that the host for the i386
build had AVX, but not the host for the amd64 build.

I'm the lead developer of gretl, and we've had some "WTF?"
type reports from users on Ubuntu and Mint. We'd be very
grateful if you could put out a 1.9.14-3 build for i386 that
fixes this issue. As shown in the patch I attached, the fix
is just a one-liner in the "rules" file.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Fixes the Debian "rules" file for gretl build" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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