Re: Octave 2.0.16 and RedHat 7.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Oct-2000, Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?= <address@hidden> wrote:

| Phil Cummins <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| >   Has anyone had any success or failure compiling Octave
| > (either 2.0.16 or a development version) on RedHat 7.0?
| 
| We ship it, compiled with the compat compiler

Hmm.  I just compiled Octave 2.0.16 on a Debian system (unstable
branch) using gcc 2.95.2 without any problems, so I don't think it
should be required that you use `the compat compiler', whatever that
is.

By default, does Red Hat 7.0 use some snapshot of gcc that is newer
than 2.95.2?  If so, why?

| - octave 2.0.x violates
| the C++ standard (which haven't always been a part of the standard
| (although is has been for a couple of years now) and older gccs have
| been very lax about enforcing). Fixing the use of reserved words
| (like "not") as enums is easy, but then there is macro magic with
| castings which is a lot harder to fix.

Would you like to submit patches to fix what you can?

jwe



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