RE: octave compiled with gcc-3.4.4-2 - error messages during make check

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 21 August 2006 19:10, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 21-Aug-2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> Then, keeping the
>> dll constant, try rolling your gcc install back to 3.4.4-1, building in a
>> fresh object dir, and running make check there.  Please let us know what
>> results you get.
> 
> This won't work for Octave because it is a victim of the std::string
> bug in the 3.4.4-1 package.  Without some fix for that problem, Octave
> segfaults on startup.

  Ah, so it would only fail every single test.  Fair enough; it would be very
hard to try and deduce if there was a problem caused by the -2 bugfix from
that limited evidence!

  Still worth trying a few different dll versions, though.  

    cheers,
      DaveK
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