From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Feb  9 13:33:24 2000
Subject: IRIX compilers
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: bsapp at lanl dot gov
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:33:01 -0600 (CST)

On  9-Feb-2000, Ben Sapp <bsapp at nua dot lampf dot lanl dot gov> wrote:

| I tried to compile octave-2.1.28 on IRIX 6.5 with the IRIX compilers.   
| 
| % setenv CC cc
| % setenv CXX CC
| % ./configure --prefix=${MY_PREFIX} --with-f77 
| 
| It seems all the c and fortran stuff work alright.  I get errors with
| c++.   Below is the first error I see.  Can you give me suggestions on
| what to try?   

Go back to g++, or find some other compiler that is closer to being
able to handle ANSI C++, I think.

| I also noticed that I have these files in /usr/local/include/g++  should
| I simply add this to the include path?

No, I'm sure that will fail.

| Some of these file with a '.h'
| appended to them are in /usr/include/CC.  For example, iostream.h, new.h
| and strstream.h.

You need a newer compiler.

The C++ standard says those files are named <iostream>, etc., not
<iostream.h>.

jwe