From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Mar 17 08:07:45 2003
Subject: Re: compiling octave-2.1.46
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Bateman<David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: Paul Kienzle<pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>, torsten<torsten@howard.cc>,    <avraham.rosenberg@weizmann.ac.il>, <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:07:00 +0100

On 17-Mar-2003, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| Yes, the code has been fixed to allow > 2.96, but the test
| 
| case "$gxx_version" in
|   1.* | 2.[[0123456789]].* | 3.0.*)
|     AC_MSG_ERROR([g++ version $gxx_version will probably fail to compile Octave])
|   ;;
| esac
| 
| is still in configure.in in the CVS. So you'll still have a failure
| in the configuration for g++ < 3.1.x

I just checked in changes to fix this.  I'm still recommending 3.2,
but for now it is once again possible to build Octave with g++ 2.95.

jwe



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