Linux - make failed in odbc section

Hi -

I am failing to install postgreSQL due to, it seems, some C++-style
comments
in odbc code (interface/odbc/info.c). I get:

info.c:92: unterminated character constant

Whe I try to "fix" the makefile to use g++ instead of gcc, it still
croaks,
due to:

info.c:2303: warning: ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from `void *'
in argument passing

So to my system, it looks like C files with C++ comments.
Am I missing something obvious?

N.B. Up until ODBC, it compiled cleanly with no warnings on gcc.

My system - linux 3.0.35, gcc 2.7.2, libc5.4.23.

Any clues?

Patrick