From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Oct 25 18:55:36 1998
Subject: Problem while compiling octave-2.0.13
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jorg Pietschmann <pietsch at swissline dot ch>
Cc: bug-octave <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:55:31 -0600 (CST)

On 25-Oct-1998, Jorg Pietschmann <pietsch at swissline dot ch> wrote:

| i got the following problem while trying to install octave-2.0.13
| on i385-solaris2.5 unsing egcs-2.92.16 (egcs-19981012)
| 
| [output snipped]
| In file included from ov.h:43,
|                  from variables.h:38,
|                  from defun-int.h:26,
|                  from defun.h:30,
|                  from data.cc:43:
| pt-exp.h:257: default argument missing for parameter 3 of
| `tree_boolean_expression::tree_boolean_expression(int = -1, int = -1,
| enum tree_boolean_expression::type)'
| make[2]: *** [data.o] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pietsch/unpack/octave-2.0.13/src'
| make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pietsch/unpack/octave-2.0.13'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| Indeed, this ought to be illegal C++ syntax.

Try the patch from Mumit Khan, archived here:

  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/bug-octave/1998/270

Or, try the new test release of Octave availble from the ftp site at

  ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/test-releases/octave-2.0.13.90.tar.gz.

Thanks,

jwe