On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Paul Boven wrote:

[deletia]
> 
> Apparently somewhere between reading errno.h and rereading it later it gets
> mangled a bit in that an extra "const" is inserted. 
> <errno.h>:48  extern const char * const sys_errlist[];
> 
> So this looks like either a compiler bug, or the file errno.h should be
> protected against multiple inclusion as per the usual #ifdef-constructions.
> 

I had the same problem. But when I started to isolate the bug, it 
disappeared! And I haven't been able to reproduce it, so try to remove
everything and start again! (if this doesnt work, remove the line that
includes errno.h. octave compiles fine without it.)

I have seen the same problem with g++ when compiling guavac-0.2.5,
and I'm a bit scared of compilers which doesn't have deterministic 
behaviour...  :(

Another problem when compiling octave and guavac are that you cannot 
use the '-O' flag, or it will fail during linking. Is this a known
problem? (I'm using a SPARC, what about other ports?) I'm planning to
investigate it this weekend.

   /Krister