From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jun 29 21:32:09 2001
Subject: Re: [patch] Use C linkage for dynamic linking
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>, octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:31:57 -0500


  John> I don't see this as necessary, but when I install a new version of
  John> Octave, I typically rebuild all .oct files that I am using with it.
  John> Not everyone may not do that, however, so I'd like to know what other
  John> people think.

I don't think it is an unreasonable requirement to recompile .oct once in a
while, for example at major Octave changes or at major toolchain changes such
as this. An inconvenience, but not a showstopper.

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