Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-1

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, James R. Phillips wrote:

> --- Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Your setup.hint "requires" isn't quite what I'd expect.  Rather than
> > just giving "readline" as dependency, which pulls in 2 versions of
> > libreadline and 2 versions of libncurses, could you please be more
> > specific and give the exact dependencies your package needs, as,
> > e.g. libreadline6 and libncurses8?
>
> OK, renamed all dlls to *.bak, and found only libreadline6 is actually
> required.

Eric already mentioned cygcheck for this.

> In building the program, the gcc linker commands use the flag
> "-lreadline". Since both static and dynamic readline link libraries are
> present in /lib, apparently the linker prefers the dynamic library,
> ending in .dll.a.  Is this a correct understanding of gcc on cygwin?

Yes, unless the library is explicitly specified or the -non_shared
(-static) flag is used.

> BTW, this program was compiled with gcc 3.3.3, and doesn't build
> properly under cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (segfaults on load).  Should those facts
> be noted in the README?

Definitely yes.
	Igor
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