From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Feb 21 18:57:58 1999
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Arnaud Installe <arnaud at bach dot tvd dot kotnet dot org>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:56:33 -0600 (CST)

On 22-Feb-1999, Arnaud Installe <arnaud at bach dot tvd dot kotnet dot org> wrote:

| To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
| Cc: arnaud
| Subject: patches needed for compiling Octave with the egcs C++ compiler on Alpha
| 
| Bug report for Octave 2.0.13 configured for alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| The C++ compiler that comes with egcs-1.1.1 won't compile Octave because of a
| few problems with inherited classes and templates.  I'm not sure whether egcs's
| implementation or Octave's use of these are incorrect.

I believe these problems are already fixed in the latest test
release.  It's available from ftp.che.wisc.edu in the directory
/pub/octave/test-releases.

jwe