From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 31 10:22:42 2001
Subject: Re: ISO C++ and Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:22:36 -0600

On 31-Jan-2001, Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU> wrote:

| On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > This seems to be a change in the way gcc works.  Do you know the
| > reason for the change?  I see that with gcc 2.97, I can specify the
| > targets with -MT "..." but that doesn't work with earlier versions of
| > gcc.
| 
| I had missed the -MT option, thanks for pointing it out. Yet another 
| little thing that configure has to do.

But why the change?  This seems like something that is going to cause
trouble for a lot of packages.

jwe