Beginning compile problems

[David Schuetz <dschuetz@access.digex.net>]

I recently found a program on the net for faxes under NeXTSTEP, and from that  
I discovered HylaFax.  Wanting greater control over my fax software (and not  
needing answering machine features) I decided to try and compile HylaFax for  
the NeXT.

I've downloaded the latest gcc (2.7.2.2), and I *think* it compiled and  
installed properly.  But I'm having a devil of a time getting it to work  
right.

So far I've had include problems with port.h (not liking extern defs of  
opendir and cfsetispeed), configure (strftime and socket calls not found in  
library searches--they're in NeXTish libs), syslog.c (couldn't find LOG_PERROR  
or STDERR_FILENO), and problems finding new.h, std.h, and _G_config.h (NeXT  
has them all in a g++ directory).

All those I kinda hacked around, and I figure they're okay, though they may  
be indicative of more serious problems.  Right now I'm stuck on an error while  
compiling RegExPtr.c++, which I've traced (with no help from gcc's error  
message) to three lines in Array.c++:
	ITEM * obj = new(ptr) ITEM;
		and
	ITEM * obj = new(q) ITEM(*p); [twice]
Now, I'm comfortable (though by no means an expert) with Objective-C, but I  
can't make heads or tails of this C++ stuff.  What exactly are these lines  
trying to do? [in this case, ITEM turns out to be the class(?) RegExPtr].  Why  
won't it compile? Here's the output of the make:
....
= util
/usr/local/bin/gcc  -I../../zlib -D__ANSI_CPP__ -I. -I.. -I../../util
  -I../../util -I/usr/local/include -I../../regex -g -O
  -x c++ -c ../../util/RegExArray.c++
../../util/RegExArray.c++:
  In method `void RegExArray::createElements(void *, unsigned int)':
  ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
    too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned int)'
../../util/RegExArray.c++:
  In method `void RegExArray::copyElements(const void *, void *, unsigned  
int) const':
  ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
    too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned int)'
  ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
    too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned int)'
*** Exit 1
Stop.


I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.2 on motorola hardware, if that helps (which it  
probably won't).

I strongly suspect I'm missing something simple somewhere deep in my  
configuration or gcc installation, but not having a clue how c++ works, I'm at  
a loss as to where to start.  I've been working at this since Saturday, and  
have given up hope of solving it myself.  Any suggestions???


Thanks!

david.