Re: build fails: ‘strerror’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’

[David Grundberg]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> What distribution of Debian are you using (stable, testing, ...)?
>
> In /usr/share/doc/libstdc++6-4.3-dev/C++/changelog.libstdc++.gz, I see
>
>   2009-01-08  Paolo Carlini  <address@hidden>
>
>           Backport from mainline:
>           2008-11-13  Paolo Carlini  <address@hidden>
>
>           PR libstdc++/38000
>           * include/c_global/csignal: Do not use include_next.
>           ...
>           * include/c_global/cstring: Likewise.
>           ...
>
> The bug report about this problem is here:
>
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38000
>
> So I think you should install and use a fixed version of GCC rather
> than modify Octave to work around this problem.
>
> jwe
>   

I was searching the debian package web interface for something like 
that. You beat me.

It's supposed to be Lenny. But that's not accurate since the machines 
are administrated by the department and they can do all kinds of things. 
I'll talk with my sysadmin.

Grateful for all your patience,
David