build error octave 2.9.6 gentoo linux

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Jun-2006, Marco Scoffier wrote:

| Hello,
| 
| Trying to build Octave 2.9.6 .  I downloaded the tar.bz2 ball from
| http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html 
| 
| I get a pointer casting error.  I've included the g++ version of my system.
| 
| dynamic-ld.cc: In member function `bool
| octave_dynamic_loader::do_load(const std::string&, const std::string&)':
| dynamic-ld.cc:268: error: ISO C++ forbids casting between
| pointer-to-function and pointer-to-object make[2]: *** [pic/dynamic-ld.o]
| Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/marco/octave-2.9.6/src'
| make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/marco/octave-2.9.6' make: *** [all]
| Error 2

Please see

  https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2006-June/000309.html

After applying the patch you'll need to run ./autogen.sh in the
top-level source directory and configure again.

jwe