From help-octave-request  Wed Apr 21 10:32:33 1993
Subject: Porting Octave to Linux
From: "GateKeeper for Dimension X" <jwf at esu dot edu>
To: help-octave
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 11:34:21 -0400


Hello there-

I am trying to port Octave to the Linux OS for PC's
(mine is a 386dx-40).  I currently have gcc version
2.3.3 installed.  Almost all of the code for Octave
compiled on the first pass,  but I have encountered
one problem in which I cannot solve.  The /src file
builtins.cc refuses to compile properly- it returns
the following error:

./builtins.cc:157: initialization between incompatible pointer types
make: *** [builtins.o] Error 1

This error appears to be associated with the assignment
of the following structure declaration:

static builtin_mapper_functions mapper_functions[] =

Any help on fixing this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks-in-advance

-Jim Farrell
jwf at esu dot edu