CVS build error with new sort

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Apr-2008, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| Some time has been passed on this thread but the problem still follows me on 
| MacOSX. You have been right with std::streamoff==long long int. I also tried to 
| use several variations of -weak options for the linker but has not been successful.
| 
| So I gave it a try to write a configure test for it. Can somebody please have a 
| look at it and tell me if this would be the right way to do it (can the 
| AC_CHECK_TYPES for std::streamoff be neglected)? If so then I can prepare a 
| changeset for the current sources the following days. My idea was then to change
| 
|    liboctave/Array-i.cc:#if defined (HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT)
| 
| into
| 
|    liboctave/Array-i.cc:#if defined (HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT) &&
|      !defined (HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT_STREAMOFF)

I think we need to check whether streamoff is actually a typedef for
"long long int", not just that it has the same size.  For example, if
it is a class that happens to have the same size, I think we would
need to instantiate arrays of streamoff objects separately from Arrays
of "long long int" objects.

jwe