Re: Building Octave on cygwin with gcc3.4.3

[Shai Ayal]

Paul,

This is exactly what happened to me and I opened a new thread on it. For me 
it also ruined the previous 2.1.57 octave which worked up till than.

Did you find any solution yet?

Paul Thomas wrote:
> John,
>
> I built gcc-3.4.3 on Cygwin, with --enable-shared.  I leapt straight in 
> and built octave-2.1.64, again with --enable-shared, but the result is 
> broken
>
> $ octave
> warning: kpathsea: variable `ye' references itself (eventually)
> warning: kpathsea: variable `ye' references itself (eventually)
> warning: kpathsea: variable `g' references itself (eventually)
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$@'
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$%'
> ..............
> ..............
> warning: kpathsea: variable `g' references itself (eventually)
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$¶'
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$É'
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$'
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$?'
> warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
> warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
> warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
> warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
> warning: kpathsea: variable `h' references itself (eventually)
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$*'
> warning: : Unrecognized variable construct `$f'
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>  what():  St9bad_alloc
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> and the system warns that it is running low on virtual memory.
>
> gcc, g77 and g++ all work fine on various smaller programs that I have 
> available.  I'll run the gcc test suite whilst I am at work.
>
> Paul T
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