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Install octave-forge miscellaneous package in homebrew octave
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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
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