From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Mon Jan  9 10:27:09 1995
Subject: Re: Building octave with gcc 2.6.3 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: ppt at cae dot ca (Pierre P. Tremblay)
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 95 10:25:48 CST

ppt at cae dot ca (Pierre P. Tremblay) wrote:

: Hello Octave users,
: 
: I am trying to compile up Octave 1.0 with gcc 2.6.3 on an SGI Indigo
: under IRIX 5.2.  From the looks of things, it seems like the package
: would compile nicely with gcc 2.5.X, but differences between gcc 2.5.X
: and gcc 2.6.X cause the build to fail.

: I am sure that some of you must have seen (and solved ;) these problems
: before.  Drop me a line if you have patches for these.

Yes, the problems are fixed, but I think it would make more sense to
wait for 1.1, which should be available soon.

: On an unrelated note, is there a way to get the configure script to
: understand that my libf2c.a file lives in a non-standard directory?
: I have resorted to manually editing the Makeconf file generated by
: configure to add in a -L/local/std/lib to make variable LIBFLAGS.

No, but I think you should be able to use something like

  make LDFLAGS="-L/usr/std/lib"

instead of having to edit Makeconf.

jwe