compile error please help

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Dec-2008, Doug Stewart wrote:

| I did a
| 
| hg pull http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
| hg update
| ./autogen.sh
| ./configure
| make
| 
| and I end at this:
| 
| 
| 
| making comment-list.d from comment-list.cc
| making c-file-ptr-stream.d from c-file-ptr-stream.cc
| making bitfcns.d from bitfcns.cc
| making Cell.d from Cell.cc
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/doug/octave2/src'
| make[2]: Entering directory `/home/doug/octave2/src'
| making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
| defaults.h is unchanged
| make[2]: --cppflags: Command not found
| make[2]: --ldflags: Command not found
| making oct-conf.h from oct-conf.h.in
| oct-conf.h is unchanged
| g++ -c -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc 
| -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:1038: error: expected initializer before ?*? token
| lex.l:1040: error: ?kw? was not declared in this scope
| lex.l:1046: error: ?break_kw? was not declared in this scope
| lex.l:1047: error: ?case_kw? was not declared in this scope
| lex.l:1048: error: ?catch_kw? wa
| 
| + more errors.
| 
| I am learning how to do all this so I can contribute more:
| So any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?

You need gperf.

jwe