Bug#812280: newmat: FTBFS with GCC 6: terminate called

2016-01-22 Thread Robert Davies
I suspect I don't know enough to load g++-6 and possibly it is too risky. In any case it doesn't want to load and there seem to be dependencies that can't be found. The section in tmt in newmat that is throwing the exception is testing exceptions. These are thrown and caught and the program ch

Bug#812280: Fix/Workaround for the newmat FTBFS

2016-11-21 Thread Robert Davies
I have made a fix to the code but haven't tested it yet on all compilers. There is one other problem that gives a lot of warnings with some compilers that I am still trying to understand. One wants to switch to C++14 if one possibly can. What do I need to do when I am satisfied with the updated

Bug#812280: newmat: FTBFS with GCC 6: terminate called

2016-06-29 Thread Robert Davies
Bug 812280 is an incompatibility between both newmat10 and newmat11 and the latest version of the C++ standard and is detected by both GCC 6 and the latest version of Microsoft's C++. Its effect on users is pretty minor but it needs fixing which I will do. Robert On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:54:42 -08