some errors after starting octave-3.0.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Jan-2008, address@hidden wrote:

| I compiled octave-3.0.0
| with gcc 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)
| 
| and now, if I enter octave at the prompt, octave starts up
| and I get some errors
| see below
| 
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| error: structure has no member `archprefix'


The format of the package database changed.  Delete the package
database stored in ~/.octave_packages and reinstall packages for 3.0.

jwe