From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Sep 23 15:15:21 1997
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: jbuchana at marauder dot millersv dot edu
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:02:50 -0500

On 23-Sep-1997, buchanan <buchanan at banach dot millersv dot edu> wrote:

| I'm trying to compile/install Octave 2.0.9 on the following Linux
| system:
| 
|   * Linux kernel 1.2.13
|   * gcc/g++ 2.6.3
|   * g77 0.5.5
|   * libg++/libstdc++ 2.6.2.4
|   * libm 5.0.0
|   * libc 5.0.9
|   * libncurses 1.9.2
|   * ld.so 1.8.5
|   * binutils 2.5.2
| 
| (I know these aren't the latest version of the software components.)
| I'm getting the following error message during compilation. Is there a
| workaround or should I just get the pre-built statically linked
| binary?

It's not possible to build the current version of Octave with gcc
2.6.3.  You either need to upgrade your compiler and libraries or just
use the binary distribution.

jwe