[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#504945: [CHANGESET] Fix compilation with g++ 4.4

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Nov-2008, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| package octave3.0
| tags 504945 upstream
| found 504945 3.0.3-1
| thanks
| 
| The patch attached below fixes Bug#504945 [1] reported against the
| octave3.0 Debian package.  I confirm that the patch fixes the compilation
| with g++ 4.4 of both versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.51.

I applied this changeset.

| The bug report also mention a failure to generate liboctinterp.so due to an
| undefined reference to `std::ctype<char>::_M_widen_init'.  I did not
| investigate this issue.
| 
| [1] http://bugs.debian.org/504945

Octave doesn't use _M_widen_init directly, so I suspect it is not a
bug in Octave.  But if this is still an issue and possibly a bug in
Octave instead of GCC, will you please send another report?

Thanks,

jwe