Re: Autoload not effective.

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 1 June 2012 09:58, Alexander Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6/1/12 6:31 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> On 1 June 2012 00:26, Brandon Chang <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm currently porting octave into iOS. I was not able to compile
>>> version 3.6.1, but after two days of work, I compiled version 2.9.19
>>> under iOS. It runs, however, with serious problem – autoload is not
>>> working.
>>
>> Octave 2.9.19 is ancient. How did you even find that? You must have
>> looked high and low for such a version. It's prehistoric, somewhat
>> literally, since it predates our move to record history with hg.
>>
>> I would much rather know why 3.6.1 isn't compiling on your iThing. Are
>> you, for example, attempting to compile with clang++ instead of g++?
>> Clang is still lagging a little behind gcc in C++ implementation, and
>> Octave doesn't compile on it yet.
>
> That's not quite correct.

Oh, I guess I'm outdated in my information. Compare:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
    http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

> I use clang to compile the C/C++ parts of Octave on Mac OS 10.7 for
> Fink, albeit with some patching. It might be that Brandon needs to
> apply the same patches.

And you should send us those patches too. :-)

- Jordi G. H.