error: template with C linkage

[Brian Borchers]

I'm attempting to build octave on an x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Machine,
using gcc 3.4.6.  The configure goes normally, but in the actual build phase,
the errors start popping up as soon as make enters the liboctave directory:
 
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/brian/octave/octave-2.9.10/liboctave'
g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc   -DHAVE_CONF\
IG_H  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -g -O2 sparse-base-chol.cc -o pic/spar\
se-base-chol.o
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/../../../../includ\
e/c++/3.4.6/complex:49,
                 from /usr/local/include/suitesparse/cs.h:14,
                 from oct-sparse.h:86,
                 from sparse-base-chol.h:30,
                 from sparse-base-chol.cc:27:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/bits/cpp_t\
ype_traits.h:75: error: template with C linkage
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/bits/cpp_t\
ype_traits.h:77: error: template with C linkage
...
 
Any suggestion of what could be causing this problem?