From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 23 13:18:49 1996
Subject: Octave fails to compile under libg++ 2.7.2 and g++ 2.7.2
From: archibal at dirac dot ccrs dot emr dot ca (Andrew Archibald)
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:32:14 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

When I attempt to compile octave-1.1.1 on a mips-sgi-irix5.3

I get a plethora of errors like the following:

CDiagMatrix.h: In function `class ComplexDiagMatrix product(const class DiagMatrix &, const class ComplexDiagMatrix &)':
CDiagMatrix.h:204: constructor `ComplexDiagMatrix::ComplexDiagMatrix(class complex<double> *, int, int)' is private
dDiagMatrix.cc:677: within this context

Well, initially, make doesn't get that far, it dies due to a problem
in mx-defs.h, where we find:

class Complex;

Now, in a new libg++ Complex isn't a class; it's a typedef. My only
solution for that was to replace

class Complex;

with 

#include <Complex.h>

As for the othjer errors, of the form constructor .* is private,
indeed the constructor is private. Making it public solves the
problem, although it's a terrible kludge.

I can go on doing this, but I doubt it is a good idea...

The compiler spews forth zillions of warnings about for scopes as
well.

Thanks,

Andrew Archibald
archibal at ccrs dot emr dot ca