compile error please help

[Doug Stewart]

I did a

hg pull http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
hg update
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

and I end at this:



making comment-list.d from comment-list.cc
making c-file-ptr-stream.d from c-file-ptr-stream.cc
making bitfcns.d from bitfcns.cc
making Cell.d from Cell.cc
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/doug/octave2/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/doug/octave2/src'
making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
defaults.h is unchanged
make[2]: --cppflags: Command not found
make[2]: --ldflags: Command not found
making oct-conf.h from oct-conf.h.in
oct-conf.h is unchanged
g++ -c -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2 lex.cc -o pic/lex.o
lex.l: In function ‘int is_keyword_token(const std::string&)’:
lex.l:1038: error: expected initializer before ‘*’ token
lex.l:1040: error: ‘kw’ was not declared in this scope
lex.l:1046: error: ‘break_kw’ was not declared in this scope
lex.l:1047: error: ‘case_kw’ was not declared in this scope
lex.l:1048: error: ‘catch_kw’ wa

+ more errors.

I am learning how to do all this so I can contribute more:
So any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
should it be using g++ or gcc ?


I am on Ubuntu and I think every thing is up to date.

Doug Stewart