Re: finally actually using gnulib

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 19-Nov-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>
> | Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> | > 
> | > Thanks for this hint.
> | > This is probably the fastest way to get it testing.
> | 
> | I am probably missing something trivial or simply doing something
> | stupid.
> | 
> | I downloaded a gnulib snapshot, and from a cloned hg repos, with
> | john's patch imported, executed
> | 
> | $ ./autogen.sh --gnulib-srcdir=/octmgw32/octave/gnulib
> | generating source lists for liboctave/Makefile...
> | vx-op-inc.mk is unchanged
> | mx-op-inc.mk is unchanged
> | smx-op-inc.mk is unchanged
> | vx-op-src.mk is unchanged
> | mx-op-src.mk is unchanged
> | smx-op-src.mk is unchanged
> | generating doc/interpreter/images.mk...
> | images.mk is unchanged
> | generating src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk...
> | module.mk is unchanged
> | bootstrapping...
> | ./bootstrap: one of these is required: sha1sum gsha1sum
>
> The sha1sum program is part of GNU coreutils.  But it looks like the
> bootstrap script only uses it if there are .po files to update (we
> don't have any), so I
> don't think we really need it.  What happenss if you comment out the
>
>   find_tool SHA1SUM sha1sum gsha1sum
>
> line in the bootstrap script?  Does it work then?

I used sha1sum from
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2004q4/000184.html
but apparently this one does not work.
Then I saw that msys distributes coreutils in two parts, and sha1sum
is in the second part, which I did not have installed.
Now it works.

> Also, if you see a message about no libgnu/gnulib.mk file, you will
> need to create a file called libgnu/Makefile.am with the contents
>
>   include gnulib.mk
>
> before running autogen.sh.  I think that filewas accidentally left out
> of my previous patch.

thanks for this info.
bootstrap, autoconf-ing and configure complete fine.

During building I get the following two errors

../../run-octave -f -q -H 
/octmgw32/octave/octave-tip-automake/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m 
doc-cache ../../src/DOCSTRINGS ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS || rm -f doc-cache
error: : mkstemp: not supported on this sytem

and

make[2]: Entering directory 
`/octmgw32/octave/.build_mingw32_octave-tip-automake-4_gcc-4.4.0-dw2'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `mkoctfile.exe', needed by `all-am'. 
 Stop.

benjamin