lex.l compile error

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Mar-2003, Nick Allen <address@hidden> wrote:

| I am trying to build octave from CVS on a linux i686 box with g++ (GCC)
| 3.2 20020903.  It is pretty much a stock RedHat 8.0 box.  I keep getting
| the following error.  Does anyone have any ideas what is going on?
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| g++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob
| -I../glob
|  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -g -O2 -Wall lex.cc -o lex.o
| lex.l: In function `int is_keyword(const std::string&)':
| lex.l:1153: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `octave_kw' with no type
| lex.l:1153: uninitialized const `octave_kw'
| lex.l:1153: parse error before `*' token

You need to install gperf.

jwe



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