From help-request at octave dot org Thu Jan  5 15:09:09 2006
Subject: Re: installing octave-forge under slack-10.1/2.9.4
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: Jorge Barros de Abreu <ficmatin01 at solar dot com dot br>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:05:11 -0600

Jorge Barros de Abreu wrote:

>Hi
>I am trying to install octave-forge under slack-10.1/octave-2.9.4 and was 
>occuring the following error
>
>checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
>conftest.cc:2:28: octave/version.h: No such file or directory
>conftest.cc:3:29: octave/defaults.h: No such file or directory
>conftest.cc:27: error: parse error before string constant
>conftest.cc:28: error: parse error before string constant
>conftest.cc:29: error: parse error before string constant
>conftest.cc:30: error: parse error before string constant
>conftest.cc:31: error: parse error before string constant
>configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile
>
>There is no version.h and defaults.h under 2.9.4.
>  
>

This bug was found shortly after 2.9.4 was released. It's fixed in CVS. 
The patch to 2.9.4 that fixes it can be found at 
http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2005/950 .

-Quentin



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