From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Jan 16 16:52:05 1999
Subject: compiling octave: g77 messages
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "April G Gruhn" <gudongfe at pilot dot msu dot edu>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:52:12 -0600 (CST)

On 16-Jan-1999, April G Gruhn <gudongfe at pilot dot msu dot edu> wrote:

| Just tries compiling OCTAVE today. Don't work. Cant make the g77 compiler.
| When I get halfway through "make bootstrap" I get this message:
| 
|   /var/tmp/cc21261a.s: Assembler messages
|   /var/tmp/cc21261a.s:140:Unknown expression:: Symbols LECIE1 and
|   LSCIE1 are in different frags
| 
| What is this? How does one fix it?

I have no idea.  Ask on the egcs or g77 mailing lists.

| Is there an OCTAVE binary out there for NetBSD?

I don't know of one, but if someone can start making them for me, I'll
put them on Octave's ftp site.

| MUST I USE g77, can I get away with f2c?

You can use f2c.  Run configure with the --with-f2c option.

jwe