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  1. edwardw revised this gist Feb 26, 2013. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
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    There are some mysterious errors when trying to install miscellaneous package from octave-forge:

    error: variable length array of non-POD element type 'Array<octave_idx_type>'

    etc. This happens to homebrew-ed octave 3.6.4.

    The issue seems to have something to do with clang, the default compiler homebrew uses to install octave. The solution for now is to use gcc instead:
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    There are some mysterious errors when trying to install miscellaneous package from octave-forge:
    error: variable length array of non-POD element type 'Array<octave_idx_type>'
    etc. This happens to homebrew-ed octave 3.6.4.

    The issue seems to have something to do with clang, the default compiler homebrew uses to install octave. The solution for now is to use gcc instead:

    ```
    $ export CXX=llvm-g++-4.2
    $ octave
    octave> pkg install -forge miscellaneous
    ```