Re: error: no matching function with octave-3.2.4/64bit/gcc-4.3.3

[Loris Bennett]

"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12-Jul-2010, Loris Bennett wrote:
>
> | The main problem is working out which flags the AIX loader requires,
> | e.g. -Wl,-brtl to allow libraries with the .so suffix to be found, or
> | -Wl,-bbigtoc to increase TOC space. The process is rather labourious as
> | the whole configure-make cycle takes such a long time. Thus, if part of
> | the make fails at some point and I find that some flag is missing, I
> | sometimes just rerun the command which failed and then run make
> | again. Another problem was that setting the option -Wl,-G to avoid a C++
> | problem caused the next configure run to produce completely spurious
> | results and subsequently a whole lot of other compilation errors.
>
> I recommend trying the development sources, because we have switched
> to using libtool to build libraries.  If that fails, then we probably
> need to fix libtool.
>
> | correct environment settings that would allow make to run without error
> | and would be happy to document this on the Octave wiki.
>
> I think we should try to fix the problems in Octave instead of just
> documenting them on a wiki.  Can you help us do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe

OK, I'll try the latest sources. I'd be willing to help iron out
problems building on AIX, assuming of course that they are really caused
by Octave and not just due to my lack of AIX-expertise.

Regards

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett
ZEDAT Computer Centre
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany