[OctDev] Octave-Forge build problems with latest Octave CVS

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Dear All,

There are a number of problems with Octave-Forge for the latest CVS.
Firstly the 

  static T resize_fill_value (void) { return T (); }

has been commented out of Array.h, so if you use this template in a
type this no longer works. I think I'm the only who supplied code that
did this, so this one isn't too big a problem.

The major problem is that the variables do_fortran_indexing,
propagate_empty_matrices etc no longer exist. Removing them and using
the new options like warn_fortran_indexing will break all backwards
compatiablity within Octave-Forge. No doing it and the functions
will fail when a new release is made.

A solution like

have_fortran_indexing = 1;
try
  tmp = do_fortran_indexing;
catch
  have_fortran_indexing = 0;
end

is possible, but looking at the number of places it'll need doing (including
in some C++ code) this is an ugly solution.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards
David


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