Re: build issues with gcc 4.8

[Muthu A]

Thank you very much Tatsuro!

2016-08-08 16:07 GMT-07:00 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>:

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>From: Muthu A 
>To: address@hidden
>Date: 2016/8/7, Sun 10:20
>Subject: build issues with gcc 4.8
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>Hello Octave maintainers, JWE,
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>I found some issues during building Octave (HG tip) using GCC 4.8; the compiler failed with RAM of 512 MB, and complained about a few issues of constructor/function argument shadowing member functions. To configure the build I followed the recommended bootstrap, configure and make instructions without any special flags.
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>Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong ? Fixing these I was able to make the build successful. My patch follows in post-script. Would there be general interest to accept these changes ?
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>Sincerely,
>-Muthu
>

Currentdevelopment source no longer supposed to be complied correctly gcc < 4.9.

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47775

Please update you gcc to 4.9.3 or later.

BTW, the patch highly recommended to be submitted as the mercurial changeset.
See:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Basics-of-Generating-a-Changeset.html#Basics-of-Generating-a-Changeset

Tatsuro