Redhat 7.0 and octave

[Phil Cummins]

Hello,

  I sent a message out about this before, when I was considering 
installing RedHat 7.0 on my notebook PC. At that time Trond Eivind 
Glomsrod said that octave 2.0.16 required a "compat compiler"
(and they have supplied the appropriate rpm) but that 2.1.x
compiles just fine.
  I have now installed 7.0 on my notebook and gave 2.0.16 a 
try. Indeed, it doesn't compile under the gcc-2.96-54 shipped
with RedHat 7.0. It had many problems with function (member
functions, I think) prototypes that didn't have argument types
specified. I tried fixing a few of these, but there seemed 
to be quite a few, and I don't know much C++. Since an rpm 
exists I didn't pursue it further (what is the "compat compiler",
anyway?).
  I also thought it might be a good opportunity to switch to the 
development tree, so I tried making 2.1.31. That chugged away for 
quite a long time, even on my 750 MHz Pentium III, but finally 
failed trying to compile input.cc. Since I was on my notebook at 
home I don't have the exact error message, but it was reported at 
line 1095 (the end of input.cc), and complained that it couldn't 
determine the end of the argument list to macro XDEFUN_LOAD (well, 
I think XDEFUN_LOAD was the name of the macro). 
  I'm sorry to say that I probably will not be able to pursue this
much further, and will likely just install the 2.0.16 rpm. I just 
thought people on the list might want to know about the problem. If 
anyone has a suggestion that might resolve the compile problem with 
2.1.31 I'll give it a try and let you know what happens. Or perhaps
no one else is running into problems with RedHat 7.0?


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Phil R Cummins                                 address@hidden
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