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RE: Building octave development from sources problem


From: Dach Miroslaw
Subject: RE: Building octave development from sources problem
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:48:39 +0200

Dear Jaroslav,

Thank you very much for your hint. I have installed the newest version of m4 
and I was able to generate configure script and at the end I was able to build 
the development version of octave.
Many thanks.

Best Regards

Miroslaw Dach


-----Original Message-----
From: Jaroslav Hajek [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tue 5/27/2008 10:07 AM
To: Dach Miroslaw
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Building octave development from sources problem
 
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Dach Miroslaw <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have tried to build octave redevelopment from sources on my Linux PC 
> (Scientific Linux distribution 5)
>
> When I have tried autogen.sh I have got following errors:
>
> [-bash SLSBASE=]# ./autogen.sh
> calling autoconf and autoheader...
> /root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave
> configure.in:1327: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by
> frozen file is not supported
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> configure.in:1327: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by
> frozen file is not supported
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> autoheader: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> /root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/scripts
> skipping autoheader in ./scripts
>
> My system is as following:
>
> Linux pc4241 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 10:12:42 EST 2008
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I will be grateful for any hint how to compile development version of octave
> in order to use John Swensen idea described in the post: 
> http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2008-May/007413.html
>

What's your m4 version? (find out with "m4 --version"). For mkstemp,
you should have at least 1.4.8 or so. Octave uses no frozen m4 files,
so probably comes from your autoconf tools. There may be a missing or
incorrect dependency of autoconf on m4 in your Linux distribution.
Upgrading m4 should fix this. If this is the case, you may want to
file a bug report to Scientific Linux maintainers.

also, I think you should prefer the octave-bug or octave-help forums
when dealing with problems like this.

cheers


-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz




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