This is a repost since my first message two weeks ago seems to have
been swallowed by the moderation queue or something.

I'm trying to compile the DTL 3.6.10 on ubuntu linux with gcc 4.2.1 (I
have tried several older versions as well). The process chokes on two
errors though. The first one was easy enough to fix, it was just a
repetition of the classname in a function declaration in a header.
Something that AFAIK is simply redundant but legal C++.

However, the second error completely baffles me as the error message
doesn't seem to have anything to do with reality. gcc complains it
cannot convert parameter one from int to char * for function "char *
setstate( char *)". This is _not_ the function declaration from the
dtl headers, but a global function from cstdlib or math. So it seems
gcc is messing up the name lookup or something and finds an incorrect
function declaration. If I rename the dtl's setstate method to
setstate_dtl the error changes to something else, indicating that gcc
indeed can't find the method declaration at all. The necessary header
"DB_base.h" is included though.

Question: did anyone else run into this problem? How can I fix this?
It is quite important for us to get a linux build of our product
working and the dtl is the last thing stopping us... So thank you for
any tips/pointers.

regards,

Sören