Re: Welcome C++11!

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 04:18:35PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | If people really want GNU Octave for work in ancient Red Hat, they should
> | support development or contact their sysadmin for installing a reasonable
> | compiler.
> 
> I wish...
> 
> Not everyone who builds Octave wants to be forced to use the latest
> version of GCC.

Back in the 2.x days, I used to build Octave on a cluster (something
with Redhat, I wasn't the admin). The build started with building a new
enough gcc and from there the dependencies (Atlas, fftw, etc).

So, needing a newer gcc would be hardly new.

        Thomas