Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 20:11:13 -0700, Michael Metts wrote:
> awesome.  i’ll give it a try.  i really think it’s important to get
> this thing on an equal footing with the other tools (R, Python).  i’m
> not a developer but i can’t see why all this 32-bit baggage is still
> around.  64-bit processors and operating systems have been in common
> use for only about a decade after all.

If you do want to understand, I have found this a useful resource

  http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

-- 
mike