Problem compiling Octave on Slackware 7.0

[Alfredo Todini]

I have tried to compile octave-2.0.16 on my Pentium II 400 with
Slackware Linux 7.0.
The configuration output is:

Octave is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu

  Source directory:     .
  Installation prefix:  /usr/local
  C compiler:           gcc  -mieee-fp -g -O2 -Wall
  C++ compiler:         c++  -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
-fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall
  Fortran compiler:     g77 -O
  Fortran libraries:     -lg2c -lm
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/egcs-2.91.66
-L/usr/i386-slackware-linux/lib -lm
  Use GNU readline:     true
  Default pager:        less
  gnuplot:              gnuplot

  Do internal array bounds checking:       false
  Build shared libraries:                  false
  Minimal kernel option:                   false
  Dynamic Linking (dlopen/dlsym):          true
  Dynamic Linking (shl_load/shl_findsym):  false

The compilation failed with the following message:

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/octave-2.0.16/src'
c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob
-I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
-fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall sysdep.cc
In file included from sysdep.cc:64:
/usr/include/termcap.h:37: invalid exception specifications
/usr/include/termcap.h:48: invalid exception specifications
make[2]: *** [sysdep.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/octave-2.0.16/src'
make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/octave-2.0.16'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Has anybody experienced this problem ?

Thank you.

Alfredo Todini
address@hidden



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