From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Oct 23 05:13:27 2000 Subject: Problem compiling Octave on Slackware 7 From: "Alfredo Todini" To: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:09:42 +0200 I have tried to compile octave-2.0.16 on my Pentium II 400 with Slackware Linux 7.0. The configuration output is: Octave is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu Source directory: . Installation prefix: /usr/local C compiler: gcc -mieee-fp -g -O2 -Wall C++ compiler: c++ -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wal l Fortran compiler: g77 -O Fortran libraries: -lg2c -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/egcs-2.91.6 6 -L/usr/i386-slackware-linux/lib -lm Use GNU readline: true Default pager: less gnuplot: gnuplot Do internal array bounds checking: false Build shared libraries: false Minimal kernel option: false Dynamic Linking (dlopen/dlsym): true Dynamic Linking (shl_load/shl_findsym): false The compilation failed with the following message: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/octave-2.0.16/src' c++ -c -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc -I../glob -I../ glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templ ates -g -O2 -Wall sysdep.cc In file included from sysdep.cc:64: /usr/include/termcap.h:37: invalid exception specifications /usr/include/termcap.h:48: invalid exception specifications make[2]: *** [sysdep.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/octave-2.0.16/src' make[1]: *** [src] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/octave-2.0.16' make: *** [all] Error 2 Has anybody experienced this problem ? Thank you. Alfredo Todini alfredotod at galactica dot it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html How to fund new projects: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------