From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 20 17:27:28 1999
Subject: cvs snapshoot error in lex.cc
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
Cc: bug-octave <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:26:13 -0500 (CDT)

On 20-Oct-1999, Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt> wrote:

| After configuring the latest cvs snapshot with the following command on
| a sco-3.2v.5.0.4 with egcs-1.1.2,
| 
| CFLAGS=-O2 CXXFLAGS=-O2 FFLAGS=-O2 ./autogen.sh
| -host=i686-pc-sco3.2v5.0.4 --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static
| 
| I receive the following error:
| 
| lex.l: In function `int is_keyword(const class string &)':
| lex.l:952: warning: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `octave_kw' with no
| type
| lex.l:952: uninitialized const `int const octave_kw'
| lex.l:952: parse error before `*'
| lex.l:954: `kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| 
| Is this related with the file "FLEX.patch"? After regenerating lex.cc
| with flex-2.5.4, I still receive the same error.

This is not a problem with flex.  It is a problem with gperf.  Your
oct-gperf.h file needs to be created with the -L ANSI-C option for
gperf.  The rules in src/Makefile should do this correctly.  Also, a
correct version of oct-gperf.h should be included in the distribution.

Can you please report problems with the bleeding-edge releases to the
octave-maintainers list?

Thanks,

jwe



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