Re: compling from CVS: lex.l errors

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 24-Feb-2005, Andy Adler <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | I'm trying to compile a clean checkout of the sparse-merge branch.
> | I'm getting the following error:
> | 
> |     $ ./autogen.sh
> |     $ ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static
> |     $ make
> |      ...
> |     g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  
> -I../glob -I../glob -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:1004: error: expected primary-expression before "const"
> |     lex.l:1004: error: expected `;' before "const"
> |     lex.l:1006: error: `kw' undeclared (first use this function)
> |     lex.l:1006: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for 
> each function it appears in.)
> |      ... and lots more errors
> | 
> | I'm using the latest versions of g++ (3.3.5 and 3.4.4) and flex 2.5.31.
> | This fails under Debian and cygwin. David Bateman suggested gperf may
> | be an issue, but I seem to have the latest version.
> | 
> | Could anyone help?
>
> It works for me.  Can you send me the lex.cc and oct-gperf.h files
> that you have?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>
>  
Andy,

I got pretty much the same errors on a machine that I didn't have gperf 
installed on when I was building from the CVS... Do you have gperf 
installed?

Regards
David

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