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Re: Octave FAQ entry
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Octave FAQ entry
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 22:12:58 +0100 (MET)
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Great! Does this mean we can get rid of that unfortunate entry in our
> FAQ regarding Octave?
Thanks to those who have replied in private e-mail. Here is how I have
updated the FAQ.
Gerald
Index: faq.html
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<li><a href="#broken">Problems with code that works with other
compilers or earlier gcc releases</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#fdzero">FD_ZERO macro</a>
+ <li><a href="#octave">Octave 2.0.13 does not compile</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#asmclobber">Problems with <tt>Invalid `asm'
statement</tt>s</a>
<li><a href="#hpcompare">Bootstrap comparison failures on HPs</a>
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<li><a href="#axparch">Assembler errors on Alpha targets</a>
<li><a href="#sig11">Signal 11 on Linux</a>
<li><a href="#bigtoc">Link failures using -bbigtoc on AIX 4.1</a>
- <li><a href="#octave">Octave does not compile</a>
<li><a href="spam.html">Dealing with spam on the lists</a>
<li><a href="#testoptions">How do I pass flags like
<code>-fnew-abi</code> to the testsuite?</a>
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} while (0)
</PRE>
+ <li><a name="octave">Octave 2.0.13 does not compile</a></h2>
+ <p>Apparently Octave 2.0.13 uses some C++ features which have been
+ obsoleted and thus fails to build with egcs-1.1 and later. This <a
+
href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/bug-octave/1998/270">patch
+ to Octave</a> should fix this.
</ul>
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- <h2><a name="octave">Octave does not compile</a></h2>
- <p>Apparently Octave uses some C++ features which have been obsoleted.
This
- <a
href="http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/bug-octave/1998/270">patch
to Octave</a> should fix the compilation problems.
<hr>
<h2><a name="testoptions">How do I pass flags like
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