From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Mar 15 12:03:10 2001
Subject: Re: trouble compiling Octave on Linux Redhat7
From: "Johan Kullstam" <kullstam at ne dot mediaone dot net>
To: teg at redhat dot com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
Cc: "Johan Kullstam" <kullstam at ne dot mediaone dot net>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: 15 Mar 2001 13:02:51 -0500

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

> "Johan Kullstam" <kullstam at ne dot mediaone dot net> writes:
> 
> > teg at redhat dot com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:
> > 
> > > Jonathan Drews <j dot e dot drews at worldnet dot att dot net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > The Red Hat Compiler is incompatible. 
> > > 
> > > No, the source code is buggy. And it has been fixed.
> > 
> > the 2.96 compiler shipped with redhat 7.0 is also buggy. 
> 
> As is 2.95, 2.8 etc, but I don't think these are relevant here.

yes, but i wanted to point out that redhat has shipped an errata
update to the compiler in redhat-7.0.  iirc it's called gcc-2.96-69.
use that in preference to whatever 2.96 redhat 7.0 originally has.

> The two main problems with making octave 2.0 build with it are
> 
> 1) The compiler doesn't accept use of C++ reserved word as enums
> 2) Not all "#define"s in Octave were done correctly - they mostly
>    worked, not anymore
> 
> Both of these are fixed (and mostly were, even before the release of
> RHL7). 
> 
> -- 
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.

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