From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 27 11:12:04 1998
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Ian Nimmo-Smith <ian dot nimmo-smith at mrc-apu dot cam dot ac dot uk>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:11:08 -0600

On 27-Jan-1998, Ian Nimmo-Smith <ian dot nimmo-smith at mrc-apu dot cam dot ac dot uk> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.6
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| Trying to install with gmake bombs out with the following error messages
| 
| echo making all in liboctave
| making all in liboctave
| cd liboctave ; gmake all
| gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/vega7/ian/octave/octave-2.0.9/liboctave'
| c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../glob -I../libcruft/misc  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fno-implicit-templates  -g -O2 -Wall CollocWt.cc
| In file included from /usr/local/lib/g++-include/std/bastring.h:35,
|                  from /usr/local/lib/g++-include/std/string.h:6,
|                  from /usr/local/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:
| /usr/local/lib/g++-include/std/stddef.h:15: parse error before `::'
| gmake[2]: *** [CollocWt.o] Error 1
| gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vega7/ian/octave/gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vega7/ian/octave/octave-2.0.9/liboctave'
| gmake[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
| gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vega7/ian/octave/octave-2.0.9'
| gmake: *** [all] Error 2

You can probably fix this by undefining NPOS in Octave's config.h.

I suspect that the real cause of the problem is that when you first
ran configure, g++ was unable to correctly find it's include files.

jwe