On Feb 13, Jukka Marin wrote
> I, too, became interested in Octave.  I grabbed the 1.1.1 source and
> installed f2c.  However, the compile aborts after running configure and
> gmake:
> 
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/octave-1.1.1/liboctave'
> c++ -c  -I. -I../src -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fno-implicit-templates  -g -O CColVector.cc
> [ error messages deleted]
> I know nothing about C++, so I'm lost.  Any advice?  Thanks in advance,
> 

I installed octave and some other tools written in c++ on  a NetBSD 1.2
system, but I used gcc2.7.2.1, gcc2.7.2 had serious bugs in the g++ section.

with 2.7.2.1, octave compile without problems, minus a hack to avoid
errno.h to be included twice (can't remember in which file).

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