From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Jul  8 19:10:16 2000
Subject: Re: octave 2.1.30 and FreeBSD 3.3 
From: Chuck Robey <chuckr at picnic dot mat dot net>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt at ir dot bbn dot com>
cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu,         chuckr@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 20:09:48 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> I installed the gcc-2.95.2 FreeBSD package.  It installs gcc295 and
> g++295.  After making symlinks in /usr/local/bin to point gcc, cc, g++
> and c++ at the 295 versions, the compile went immensely better.
> 
> (The FreeBSD port should probably require 2.95 and do something to
> specify g++295/c++295.)
> 
> I only had the NPOS problem described in
> 
>   ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/MAILING-LISTS/help-octave/2000/827
> 
> I fixed that by changing NPOS to std::string::npos.
> This was too frequent, so I put
> 
> #define NPOS string::npos
> 
> in 
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-portbld-freebsd3.3/2.95.2/include/g++/string
> 
> rather than patching all the source files.
> After that, I was able to build and install octave, and it seems to
> work fine.

Greg, I now have access to a FreeBSD-3.4 machine.  I'll test out your
change, see if it's needed and works, and see if I can't get a patch that
accomodates both newer and older versions into the FreeBSD port.  I
normally only test it on FreeBSD-current.  For -current, the latest
octave version builds quite nicely.

Thanks for cc'ing me.

> 

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