From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct 30 09:15:17 2000
Subject: Re: Octave 2.0.16 and RedHat 7.0
From: teg at redhat dot com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: Phil Cummins <cummins at xochitl dot jamstec dot go dot jp>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 30 Oct 2000 10:15:14 -0500

teg at redhat dot com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:

> Phil Cummins <cummins at xochitl dot jamstec dot go dot jp> writes:
> 
> >   Has anyone had any success or failure compiling Octave
> > (either 2.0.16 or a development version) on RedHat 7.0?
> 
> We ship it, compiled with the compat compiler - octave 2.0.x violates
> the C++ standard (which haven't always been a part of the standard
> (although is has been for a couple of years now) and older gccs have
> been very lax about enforcing). Fixing the use of reserved words
> (like "not") as enums is easy, but then there is macro magic with
> castings which is a lot harder to fix.

Note that the 2.1.x tree works just fine. 

-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.



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