Re: octave 2.1.30 and FreeBSD 3.3

[Greg Troxel]

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.



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