Re: Autoload not effective.

[Alexander Hansen]

On 6/1/12 6:31 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 1 June 2012 00:26, Brandon Chang <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I'm currently porting octave into iOS. I was not able to compile
>> version 3.6.1, but after two days of work, I compiled version 2.9.19
>> under iOS. It runs, however, with serious problem – autoload is not
>> working.
> 
> Octave 2.9.19 is ancient. How did you even find that? You must have
> looked high and low for such a version. It's prehistoric, somewhat
> literally, since it predates our move to record history with hg.
> 
> I would much rather know why 3.6.1 isn't compiling on your iThing. Are
> you, for example, attempting to compile with clang++ instead of g++?
> Clang is still lagging a little behind gcc in C++ implementation, and
> Octave doesn't compile on it yet.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

That's not quite correct.  I use clang to compile the C/C++ parts of
Octave on Mac OS 10.7 for Fink, albeit with some patching.  It might be
that Brandon needs to apply the same patches.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/