Re: gcc | Octave 2.1.4x | saga continues

[Evan Cooch]

> If you're bored, try google (outright and on the newgroups) for search
> terms combining Red Hat and gcc. You'd be amazed ...

Or dismayed. :-)




> No, make doesn't, configure does. And it leaves detailed logs behind. Examine
> them.

Whoops.




> Bogus. Lots of people, JWE included, are rather happy with Debian.

Sigh - another 'my distro is better than your distro' tangent. Who cares - 
I can probably find examples of things that don't work in Debian as well 
(or install as easily) as they do in other distros. The biggest problem 
with the Linux community is distro-zealotry. They're all pretty good, and 
none of them are perfect.

But, what you do point out is that Octave 'prefers' Debian. Fair enough - 
but probably better to just say so, rather than imply other distros are 
better or worse than others.

However, it might be useful to offer a simple guide to pointers/suggestions 
for other distros. Just a thought...

At any rate, the point of this all is to figure out how to get 2.1.4x 
running on a RH system (which does constitute a fair proportion of the 
distro market share). Pointing out that it 'works fine under Debian' is not 
particularly helpful. Sounds vaguely like Micro$0ft techs telling me that 
'upgrading to XP is the solution to everything'. :-) 



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