octave-forge's rand.oct did not compile

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Oct-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| I'm not sure how much information you need.  I am using Red Hat and 
| working from the octave-forge-2005.06.13.  I want randp to work but I 
| guess it is a symlink to octave-forge's rand.oct, which is missing.  When 
| I try to compile octave-forge, I see this:
| 
| rand.cc: In function `octave_value do_seed(octave_value_list)':
| rand.cc:48: syntax error before `=' token
| rand.cc:61: syntax error before `[' token
| rand.cc:82: syntax error before `=' token
| rand.cc:93: syntax error before `[' token
| rand.cc:95: syntax error before `(' token
| make[1]: *** [rand.oct] Error 1

If you look at the source, I think you will see that all the lines
with errors are using types like uint32_t.  What compiler are you
using?  Does it not recognize these (c99?) type names?

jwe



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