Unable to build octave 3.2.4

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Dec-2010, Robbeloth,      Michael C CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RBSD wrote:

| I am attempting to build octave 3.2.4 from my home directory on a RHEL 5.2
| system and received the following error:
| 
|  
| 
| ? error:  template with C linkage
| 
| g++ -c -I/home/robbelmc/include -D_GNU_SOURCE  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave
| -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wall -W
| -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2 -pthread SparseCmplxCHOL.cc -o pic/
| SparseCmplxCHOL.o
| 
| In file included from /home/robbelmc/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1/..
| /../../../include/c++/4.5.1/complex:44:0,
| 
|                  from /home/robbelmc/include/cs.h:14,
| 
|                  from oct-sparse.h:87,
| 
|                  from sparse-base-chol.h:27,
| 
|                  from SparseCmplxCHOL.h:27,
| 
|                  from SparseCmplxCHOL.cc:28:
| 
|  
| 
| As you can tell, I am using gcc 4.5.1 (built and installed in home as I lack
| root privileges) .I previously built SuiteSparse 3.5 and installed into my 
home
| directory. I found a previous discussion on this error and it was due to using
| an old gcc compiler. However, this is not the case for me. Any thoughts?
| Thanks.

I'm unable to reproduce this problem with either Octave 3.2.4 or the
current development sources using gcc, g++ and gfortran 4.5.1 on my
Debian system.

jwe