From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Aug  4 13:01:57 1998
Subject: problems with prerelease egcs
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:00:32 -0500 (CDT)

On  4-Aug-1998, Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk> wrote:

| I've been trying out Octave 2.0.13 with the prerelease egcs 1.1
| (primarily to test out the fortran bits, specifically with different
| optimizations).
| 
| It fails with this error multiple times (which it doesn't with
| egcs-1.0.2).  It doesn't mean anything to me as I don't grok C++, but
| I assume the egcs C++ language has been tightended recently.  If
| there's a fix for it I'm happy to try it out and make sure Octave will
| build and check under x86-linux at least, or if you think it's an egcs
| bug I'll pass that on.
| 
| egcs-c++-snap -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall time.cc
| In file included from ov.h:43,
|                  from variables.h:38,
|                  from defun-int.h:26,
|                  from defun-dld.h:30,
|                  from time.cc:31:
| pt-exp.h:257: default argument missing for parameter 3 of `tree_boolean_expression::tree_boolean_expression(int = -1, int = -1, enum tree_boolean_expression::type)'
| make[2]: *** [time.o] Error 1
| make[2]: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/.automount/dlsd/root/c-e/mnts/fx/octave-2.0.13/src'
| make[1]: *** [src] Error 2

Mumit Khan posted a patch to the bug-octave mailing list that I think
will fix this problem for you.  It's available from
http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/bug-octave/1998/270.

| [One could object to the Fortran being in `libcruft' I feel!]

But that stuff *is* crufty!  :-)

jwe