gcc 2.96 build

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Feb-2003, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:

| (2) The compiler was consuming many hundreds of 
| megabytes of ram to initialize the map in octave_config_info.  
| In the current build I just comment it out, but
| I have converted it to build the map from an array of
| pointers to strings.  I will send a patch to toplev.cc
| when I know that it works.

I think at least one of the elements is not a string, so it will
need to be handled separately.  But I think that's OK.

| (3) file-io uses std::auto_ptr which isn't available.  The
| following batch converts it to use OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER.
| 
| Paul Kienzle <address@hidden>
|       * file-io.cc: Use one less feature of the compiler.
|       OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER is used elsewhere, auto_ptr isn't.

I applied this patch.

Thanks,

jwe