From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 14 11:36:00 2005
Subject: octave-2.1.64: build comments
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math dot utah dot edu>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:37:51 -0500

On 14-Jan-2005, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math dot utah dot edu> wrote:

| I made 9 build attempts for octave-2.1.64 on these platforms
| 
| 	Apple MacOS X 10.3.2 (Darwin 7.2.0)
| 	AMD64 GNU/Linux Fedora Core release 3
| 	Intel Itanium-2 GNU/Linux Red Hat Advanced Server release 2.1AS
| 	DEC Alpha 4100-5/466 OSF/1 4.0F
| 	Sun Ultra Enterprise 5500 Solaris 8
| 	Intel Pentium III GNU/Linux Red Hat 8.0
| 
| using gcc, Intel icc, and native (DEC and Sun) compilers.  
| 
| Of them, only the AMD64 build succeeded (nice, because it is a
| brand-new system, and very fast).
| 
| All of the build failures seem to be C++ issues, and I was surprised
| to find the builds with Intel icc failing, since it is the only
| compiler on the above platforms that claims full conformance to both
| 1999 ISO Standard C, and to 1998 ISO Standard C++.
| 
| I now have a Solaris 10 test system with new Sun compilers that I'll
| try after some other long-running builds complete.
| 
| If you folks are interested in looking at the build logs, let me know,
| and I'll make them available privately off this list.

It would be good if Octave built cleanly on more systems.  I don't
have access to a wide variety of systems now, so your help would be
much appreciated.  Let me know how I can get copies of the logs.

Thanks,

jwe



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