From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov  6 13:50:53 1998
Subject: 2.1.8 again, sorry :(
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
Cc: bug-octave <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:50:21 -0600 (CST)

On  6-Nov-1998, Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt> wrote:

| I forgot to say: octave-2.1.8 was compiled with egcs-1.0.3 on a
| sco-3.2v5.0.4 system. `make check' gives no errors.

Unfortunately, `make check' doesn't check everything.  Someone has to
write the tests.  Writing tests takes time.  There are lots of
projects, but not enough time...

| A missing feature: lists and structures cannot yet be loaded/saved. John
| Eaton, didn't you agreed with the patch I sent to you?

See above.

| Also, the `make install' installs without user previleges either the
| binaries either the (shared) libraries.

I don't understand.  Octave uses $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) and $(INSTALL)
as recommended by the GNU autoconf manual.  Does this problem also
happen for other programs you install?  What is the definition for
$(INSTALL) on your system?  What is your umask when you run install?

| P.S.- John Eaton, I have just now received you patch for the empty
| string bug. How can I compile and link *just* data.cc avoiding all the
| lenghty generic make?
| If I `cd src;make' it rebuilds almost everything in the pic
| subdirectory.

That problem should be fixed in 2.1.10.

| Also, I have configured with `--disable static', and, although the
| static libraries are not build, the corresponding object files are
| needlessly (?) build.

Did you use --disable-static, or `--disable static'?  The correct
option is --disable-static, and it seems to work for me.

jwe