Re: A purely serial build

[David Grundberg]

M C skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to octave, and I was wondering if it is possible to build a purely 
> serial build, i.e. one which does not use calls to fork (as in the source 
> files syscalls.cc and toplev.cc). I need this in order to link with a third 
> party library which affords user-space checkpointing of the running 
> application, but one of the limitations this approach requires is that the 
> application (octave in this case) does not fork (or use any IPC tools).
> 
> I'd be very grateful if anyone could let me know if such a build is possible, 
> and if it is, how to go about building it.
> 

Remove the offensive calls, build it, and find out.  AFAIK, nobody had
this problem before.

Grundberg