Re: More Re: AW: Re: pkg install/uninstall again

[kensmith]

On Monday 16 July 2007 08:12, David Bateman wrote:
> kensmith wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2007 01:13, David Bateman wrote:
> >> kensmith wrote:
> >>> It appears that I had a very different problem from the org.
> >>> question.
> >>>
> >>> I figured out part of the problem in the "make" operation.  The
> >>> Makefile has a common mistake in it.  In all places where you
> >>> see:
> >>>
> >>>         XXXXX   =   YYYY, ZZZZ .... etc
> >>>
> >>> make that
> >>>
> >>>        XXXXX=  YYYY,ZZZZ ... etc
> >>>
> >>> I had fixed only some of the cases resulting in some lines that
> >>> did work and some that didn't in the Makefiles.
> >>>
> >>> I still haven't gotten it to work right yet, but I'm getting
> >>> closer.
> >>
> >> What version of make are you using..
> >
> > *******
> > ~> make -v
> > GNU Make 3.80
> > Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> > There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> > PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > *************
> >
> >> The above is necessary for shell
> >> script but not to my knowledge for Makefiles.. Octave itself is
> >> full of such examples. I suspect if you used a gnu version of make
> >> (which in fact I believe are the only officially supported
> >> versions of make) then these problems would go away...
> >
> > It looks like you suspect wrong since it is a GNU version.  Perhaps
> > it is just a "feature" of only this version of the GNU make.  I am
> > fairly sure that it was a non-GNU make where I first bumped into
> > this issue and since them I have never put spaces in.  As a result
> > I've never put it to test with my own "Makefile"s.
> >
> > After removing the spaces, it looks like I have another problem
> > only this one is in the "./configure" script.  The  help stuff is
> > supposed to be processed by a   "Texinfo" utility.  The
> > "./configure" is getting something wrong there.  I think it may be
> > that it can't find the needed program and sets it to "missing"
> > because I get an unknown command called "missing" in my "Makefile"s
> > for the documentation.
> >
> > If I get it all fixed, I will post the patch.
>
> Ken,
>
> Your solution makes no sense. Consider that all of the Octave
> Makefiles include such syntax for argument setting, so I doubt your
> patch will be accept. If you don't believe just look at
>
> http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/octave/src/Makefile.i
>n?rev=HEAD
>
> and you'll see every single variable that is set includes a space
> between the variable name and the "=" or ":=". How could octave
> itself be built on your platform, if the space needs to be removed..
> BTW I also make v3.80 of gnu make and I have no problems with the
> build...

The mystery deepens then.  The Octave 2.9.12 on my machine only made at 
all after I made the edits I suggested to all the make files.  That was 
all I changed in the make file.  I made a script called "missing" to 
generate a junk output to get there to be a documentation file for the 
"mv" command so that the whole process could finish.  When I did this I 
got a version 2.9.12 that would finally run.  This was part of my 
effort to trouble shoot the problem.  I did not intend to stay with 
this.

The earlier octave I was using came to my machine as an RPM not as a 
source.  Someone had to make it but I don't know how.  Someone had to 
have made that RPM but their system needn't have been exactly like mine 
to have done it.  Chances are they had the "Texinfo" stuff needed.  
They may have been running a different "make" for all I know.






>
> D.

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