Re: [OctDev] Compile failures in octave-forge with CVS octave

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

Quentin Spencer wrote:

> I tried compiling the cvs version of octave-forge with the cvs version 
> of octave, and two functions failed to compile:
>
> 1. main/fixed/fixedNDArray.cc
>
> fixedNDArray.o
> fixedNDArray.cc:407:59: error: macro "MX_ND_REDUCTION" passed 5 
> arguments, but takes just 3
> fixedNDArray.cc:421:61: error: macro "MX_ND_REDUCTION" passed 5 
> arguments, but takes just 3
> fixedNDArray.cc:436:61: error: macro "MX_ND_REDUCTION" passed 5 
> arguments, but takes just 3
>
> This appears to be caused by recent changes to octave. I don't know 
> enough about this code to debug it, but from looking at it, it appears 
> that this macro has changed periodically in the past and there is 
> already some cruft in the code to handle different cases. To whoever 
> fixes this I suggest removing the old stuff since we are trying to 
> clean up before octave 3.0.
>
Try the attached patch, that I'll commit soon. Yes it adds more cruft, 
but we'll get rid of that soon, as I said..

D.

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