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Re: building ancient Octave versions
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Rik |
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Re: building ancient Octave versions |
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Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:36:43 -0700 |
On 08/12/2019 10:36 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:00:12 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> Please post the changes you made to build 3.2.4 with current tools. I tried
>> but ran into numerous problems and if you have already done the work it
>> would save others time in trying to duplicate the issues.
> Attached are the patches I use to build Octave 3.4.3 through 4.0.3 with
> a current toolchain. I haven't tried 3.2.4 yet but would also be
> interested in seeing that patch.
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> I plan to maintain a project to build released versions of Octave, and
> incorporate these patches, useful configure options, and any other
> knowledge needed to keep old versions going.
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I also attached them to bug #56752.
It is probably good enough to just test 3.2.4 against dev until most of the
discrepancy has been removed. Ideally, one might then look at the
difference to the 3.4.X series which had the fastest runtimes in my experience.
--Rik
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