The installation problem!

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Oct-1997, Ju Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:

| When I complie the octave, I got following error:
| 
| gmake[2]: Entering directory `/opt/octave/octave-2.0.9/liboctave'
| c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../glob -I../libcruft/misc  
| -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fno-implicit-templates  -g -O2 -Wall Bounds.cc
| c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../glob -I../libcruft/misc  
| -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fno-implicit-templates  -g -O2 -Wall CollocWt.cc
| In file included from /opt/gnu/lib/g++-include/std/bastring.h:35,
|                  from /opt/gnu/lib/g++-include/std/string.h:6,
|                  from /opt/gnu/lib/g++-include/string:5,
|                  from mach-info.h:26,
|                  from data-conv.h:28,
|                  from dMatrix.h:35,
|                  from CollocWt.h:32,
|                  from CollocWt.cc:33:
| /opt/gnu/lib/g++-include/std/stddef.h:15: parse error before `::'
| gmake[2]: *** [CollocWt.o] Error 1
| gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/octave/octave-2.0.9/liboctave'
| gmake[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
| gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/octave/octave-2.0.9'
| gmake: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| would you please give me some idea about this?

I'm guessing that the problem is that Octave's configure script didn't
find a definition for NPOS when it included <string>, so it assumed
that it needed to define it as string::npos.

Did something change about your system between the time you ran
configure and when you ran make?

jwe