Re: Mingw build of octave

[Paul Thomas]

Danny Smith said that there was a bug in gcc that led to this kind of 
problem.  However, I tried his fix and the result was the same.  I think 
that you must be right - I will do as you suggest.

Paul T

John W. Eaton wrote:

> I think the first thing to do is look at the output from the
> preprocessor to see if there are any #defines that are causing
> trouble.  Try running
>
>  make CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -save-temps"
>
> and then look at the pathsearch.ii file and see if some funny
> expansion happened in the declaration of this struct.
>
> If this is not the problem, then perhaps there is some other bug,
> though I would expect that the mingw g++ should be able to compile its
> own system headers.
>
> jwe
>
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