Can't compile 2.0.8 on Alpha Linux

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Jul-1997, Lo Sheng <address@hidden> wrote:

| I have downloaded the latest source 2.0.8, but failed to install octave on
| the Alpha Linux (RedHat 4.2). 
| 
| During make, I got the followin errors:
| ------
| address@hidden bin]# make all 2>stderr.out
| ../../info/man.c: In function `find_man_formatter':
| ../../info/man.c:179: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different
| size

This is probably not fatal, but should probalby be reported to the
texinfo maintainers.

|    balgen:
|    gradeq:
|    reduce:
|    scaleg:
|    dasum:
|    daxpy:
|    dcabs1:
| Compiler error line 8 of : floating exception during constant evaluation;
| cannot recover
| make[3]: *** [dcabs1.c] Error 3
| make[2]: *** [blas] Error 2
| make[1]: *** [libcruft] Error 2
| make: *** [all] Error 2

This is likely due to a bug in g77 or gcc -- are you using g77 or f2c +
gcc to compile the Fortran bits?

jwe