Re: problems compiling 2.1.36 on solaris 8 with gcc-3.2

[Sam Ducksworth]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> If you want to build Octave with gcc 3.2, please try the CVS sources.
> CVS checkout instructions are at www.octave.org/download.html near the
> bottom of the page.
>
> jwe
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thanks john,

i am now building from CVS. i am getting alot further than before. i get 
a new error now. here is what i did to configure and build from CVS.

./autogen.sh
sh configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-g77 --enable-shared

/usr/local/bin/make

here is the error:


making gendoc.cc
g++ -o gendoc gendoc.cc
gendoc.cc:82:49: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
gendoc.cc:105:67: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
gendoc.cc:108:32: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
gendoc.cc:128:88: missing terminating ' character
gendoc.cc:1034:1: unterminated argument list invoking macro 
"XDEFUN_DLD_INTERNAL"
gendoc.cc: In function `void print_daspk_doc_strings()':
gendoc.cc:1034: `XDEFUN_DLD_INTERNAL' undeclared (first use this function)
gendoc.cc:1034: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
  function it appears in.)
gendoc.cc:1034: parse error at end of input
make[4]: *** [gendoc] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/admin/BuildArea/sources/octave/sol58/octave-cvs-09132002/src'
make[3]: *** [../../src/DOCSTRINGS] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/admin/BuildArea/sources/octave/sol58/octave-cvs-09132002/doc/interpreter'
make[2]: *** [interpreter] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/admin/BuildArea/sources/octave/sol58/octave-cvs-09132002/doc'
make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/admin/BuildArea/sources/octave/sol58/octave-cvs-09132002'
make: *** [all] Error 




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