Re: Octave's oct-modules built with gcc-3.4.4-1 crash octave.

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Dessent
"James R. Phillips" wrote: > This situation as regards gcc and octave is admittedly awkward, but I see no > simple remedy as a package maintainer. It would be nice if gcc 3.4 were fixed > - but I can't make that happen. It would be nice if cygwin supported multiple > simultaneous gcc installs -

Re: Octave's oct-modules built with gcc-3.4.4-1 crash octave.

2006-02-21 Thread James R. Phillips
Re: jwe: what he said. Also, this is a good time to remind cygwin package users that cygwin-specific packaging notes for package foo-x are generally located in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/foo-x.README. This is a cygwin packaging standard - so expect to find some information for every major installed pa

Octave's oct-modules built with gcc-3.4.4-1 crash octave.

2006-02-21 Thread John W. Eaton
On 21-Feb-2006, Juhani Saastamoinen wrote: | The binary octave modules compiled with gcc-3.4.4 don't work. The last time I checked, Octave just doesn't work with gcc 3.4 on Cygwin systems. I think the biggest problem is this bug http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196 which was als

RE: Octave's oct-modules built with gcc-3.4.4-1 crash octave.

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 February 2006 11:41, Juhani Saastamoinen wrote: > 4. Running octave with gdb suprisingly causes segmentation fault. > The following happens, of course, indepent of the installed gcc version. > This looks like some subtle problem, maybe with cygwin dll, > octave, or gdb. Skillful people, pl

Octave's oct-modules built with gcc-3.4.4-1 crash octave.

2006-02-21 Thread Juhani Saastamoinen
Hi, The binary octave modules compiled with gcc-3.4.4 don't work. Installing the gcc-3.3.3-3 compiler version makes oct modules work again. I use a 'myones.cpp' code as an example below. When debugging octave with gdb I saw even more subtle problems which may be caused by cygwin, gdb, or octave.