From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Nov 24 13:49:04 2002
Subject: [PATCH] (ugly) fix for glibc-2.x sys_siglist[] failures in 2.1.40
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Nix <nix at esperi dot demon dot co dot uk>
cc: bug-octave mailing list <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:47:48 -0600

On 24-Nov-2002, Nix <nix at esperi dot demon dot co dot uk> wrote:

| Systems using recent glibcs can't compile Octave 2.1 at the moment
| because sys_siglist[] isn't found by configure even though it is present
| in <signal.h>, leading to mismatching duplicate definitions and
| compilation failure when compiling help.cc (and probably other files
| too).

Can you be more specific about which versions  of libc?  I'm using
2.2.5 without any any problems.  What kind of system are you using
where you see this problem?

Thanks,

jwe



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