Re: Octave & Fortran continued

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jan-2009, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:
| > 1) file size - IMO this *does* matter.
| 
| Any idea about the size overhead when not using using shared versions
| of libgcc and libstdc++?
| 
| > 2) design
| > 3) throwing exceptions across dlls requires a shared libstd++ (this is a
| > bit too simply put but is the general idea)
| 
| Might indeed be interesting. Is this needed to make octave run correctly?
| If not, then I'd be tempted to not use shared versions of libgcc and libstdc++
| as it produces maintenance overhead (besides the traditional ./configure &&
| make && make install).

I wasn't thinking about exceptions when I posted earlier.  If it is
true that shared libstdc++ is needed for exceptions to work correctly,
then I think we will need it to be a shared library.

jwe