Re: compile problems with 2.9.6

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Jun-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> [2006-06-12 17:42]:
| 
| > * Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> [2006-06-12 17:23]:
| > 
| > > You are right.  This is a bug in the g++-4.1 package:
| > > 
| > >    http://bugs.debian.org/372705
| > >    http://bugs.debian.org/372152
| > >    http://bugs.debian.org/372559
| > 
| > And upstream is also informed, although they consider the bug as invalid:
| > 
| >     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27935
| 
| Putting the following in /etc/apt/source.list:
| 
|     deb http://people.debian.org/~doko/gcc-4.1 ./
|   
| and upgrading the g++-4.1 package to 4.1.1-3 seems to fix the problem.

OK, now I'm confused.  The bug report is invalid, but the bug was
fixed in a later version?  If the bug report was invalid, does that
mean that the example code in the bug report was invalid?  If so, then
what is the proper fix so that it is valid code?  Also, for Octave,
precisely what is the bug and the fix, if it really is a bug in
Octave?

jwe