problems installing Octave 2.1.44 | RH 7.3

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Feb-2003, Evan Cooch <address@hidden> wrote:

| Greetings -
| 
| I'm currently running 2.1.39 without any problems on my RH Linux 7.3 box, 
| which I keep as up-to-date as possible (e.g., making sure gcc is recent, 
| perl is recent, python is recent etc...).
| 
| This morning, I tried to install the latest 'bleeding edge' tarball for 
| 2.1.44, and the make failed right near the end with the following error 
| messages:
| 
| In file included from Cell.h:36,
|                   from Cell.cc:31:
| oct-obj.h: In function `void octave_value_list::operator delete (void
| *, void *)':
| oct-obj.h:69: no matching function for call to `operator delete (void
| *&, void *)'
| /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include/new:56: candidates are: 
| void opera
| tor delete (void *)
| /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include/new:60: 
| void opera
| tor delete (void *,
| const nothrow_t &)
| make[2]: *** [Cell.o] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/users/egc/octave-2.1.44/src'
| make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/users/egc/octave-2.1.44'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| 
| I can't tell from the preceding if this is a gcc problem (I'm currently 
| using gcc-2.96-113), or a weird interaction with something Octave is 
| looking for, and something in the way RH has gcc libraries located.

You need gcc, g++, and g77 3.2.

jwe



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