Re: fltk, oct files, and windows

[James R. Phillips]

--- "John W. Eaton" wrote:

> On  3-Oct-2005, James R. Phillips wrote:
> 
> | I have been unable to produce a working version of 2.1.71 using gcc 3.4.4
> on
> | cygwin.
> 
> I tried debugging the problem with Octave vs. gcc 3.4.x on Cygwin and
> was unable to find a solution.  But I did find that compliling a
> completely static versoin of Octave avoided the bug.  I would bet that
> the problem described by the message below is the source of the
> trouble for Octave on Cygwin with gcc 3.4.x.
> 
> jwe

This looks like a promising explanation, which may result in a fix soon.

Gerrit Haase (cygwin gcc maintainer) has submitted a bug report to the gcc
project.  I hope he will also develop a patch to fix it soon.

jrp



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