Re: possible mkoctfile bug on 4.2.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/16/2017 08:36 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 16/01/2017 12:25, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > Trying to build control package with octave-4.2.0 on cygwin I noticed
> > that the CXX setting seems to not be preserved:
> >
> > $ mkoctfile -p CXX
> > g++ -std=gnu++11
> >
> > while "-std=gnu++11" seems disappear on invocation by Makefile
>
> Not a bug. mkoctfile propagates previous settings of CXX
>
>  $ CXX="g++" mkoctfile -p CXX
> g++
>
>  $ mkoctfile -p CXX
> g++ -std=gnu++11

Are you saying that the Makefile in the control package sets CXX to 
something that leaves out the -std=gnu++11 option?  Maybe that option 
should be handled differently?  I don't know what the best solution is.

jwe