From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Dec 10 19:24:36 1996
Subject: C++ Compile failure on Sun-SPARC-Solaris2.5
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Dutt, Vinayak, Ph.D." <dutt dot vinayak at mayo dot edu> (Vinayak Dutt)
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:24:09 -0600

On 10-Dec-1996, Vinayak Dutt <dutt dot vinayak at mayo dot edu> wrote:

:   The compile fails in the liboctave directory when it tries to
:   compile CollocWt.cc file.
:   Here's the except from make output:
: 
: make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/usdata/vdp/ftp/octave-2.0/libcruft'
: echo making all in liboctave
: making all in liboctave
: cd liboctave ; /opt/FSFgcc/bin/make all
: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/usdata/vdp/ftp/octave-2.0/liboctave'
: c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../glob -I../libcruft/misc  -I/opt/FSFlibg++/lib/g++-include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fno-implicit-templates  -O2 -Wall CollocWt.cc
: In file included from /opt/FSFlibg++/lib/g++-include/std/bastring.h:35,
:                  from /opt/FSFlibg++/lib/g++-include/std/string.h:6,
:                  from /opt/FSFlibg++/lib/g++-include/string:5,
:                  from mach-info.h:26,
:                  from data-conv.h:28,
:                  from dMatrix.h:35,
:                  from CollocWt.h:32,
:                  from CollocWt.cc:33:
: /opt/FSFlibg++/lib/g++-include/std/stddef.h:15: parse error before `::'
: make[2]: *** [CollocWt.o] Error 1
: make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/usdata/vdp/ftp/octave-2.0/liboctave'
: make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/usdata/vdp/ftp/octave-2.0'
: make: *** [all] Error 2

I think you can fix this by editing Octave's config.h file and
deleting the line

  #define NPOS string::npos

Thanks,

jwe