From help-request at octave dot org Sun Jan 23 23:54:53 2005
Subject: Re: Building Octave on cygwin with gcc3.4.3
From: "Paul Thomas" <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: <help at octave dot org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:59:27 +0100

John,

I built gcc-3.4.3 on Cygwin, with --enable-shared.  I leapt straight in and 
built octave-2.1.64, again with --enable-shared, but the result is broken

$ octave
warning: kpathsea: variable `ye' references itself (eventually)
warning: kpathsea: variable `ye' references itself (eventually)
warning: kpathsea: variable `g' references itself (eventually)
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$ at '
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$%'
..............
..............
warning: kpathsea: variable `g' references itself (eventually)
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$¶'
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$É'
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$'
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$?'
warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$*'
warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$f'
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  St9bad_alloc
Aborted (core dumped)

and the system warns that it is running low on virtual memory.

gcc, g77 and g++ all work fine on various smaller programs that I have 
available.  I'll run the gcc test suite whilst I am at work.

Paul T





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