Re: cannot compile liboctave/file-ops.cc; mkfifo issue (MinGW build)

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

I have forgotten to write that xalloc.h problem was solved.  

Regards

Tatsuro

--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA < wrote:

> Hello 
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> --- "John W. Eaton" wrote:
> 
> > On  5-Jan-2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > 
> > | There seems to exist file location problems in configure process?
> > | I have met the following at present,
> > | 
> > | 1. xalloc.h was not copied to directory 'libgnu'. It is required to 
> > compile to mkdir.c
> > 
> > I think the mkdir module in gnulib should depend on the xalloc
> > module.  I submitted a patch to the gnulib maintainers for that.
> > 
> > | 3. mkfifo.c seemed not to be copied to the directory libgnu. Of course it 
> > was not complied
> and
> > not
> > | included in libgnu.a in the make process of octave.
> > 
> > Oops.  I checked in the following change.
> > 
> >   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4058ff089fa3
> > 
> > | For 1, I manually copied xalloc.h into libgnu directory manually.
> > | For 2. I have a special directro named 'c:/programs/OctaveBuild' in which 
> > dependencies are
> > saved. 
> > | at the configure 
> > | 
> > | export LDFLAGS='-Lc:/Programs/OctaveBuild/lib  
> > -LC:/Programs/WinDevTools/lib
> > | -Lc:/Programs/GnuWin32/lib -lsupc++'
> > | export CPPFLAGS='-Ic:/Programs/OctaveBuild/include 
> > -Ic:/Programs/WinDevTools/include
> > | -Ic:/Programs/GnuWin32/include'
> > | 
> > | I have made a directry c:/Programs/OctaveBuild/include/sys/  and copy 
> > sys_stat.h as stat.h
> > into
> > | c:/Programs/OctaveBuild/include/sys/.
> > 
> > I don't understand why you should need to do this now that both
> > -I../libgnu and -I$(top_srcdir)/libgnu appear in the CPPFLAGS
> > variable.  The gnulib stat.h file should be placed in the libgnu/sys
> > subdirectory in your build tree and the compiler should find it
> > there.  You should not have to copy any files by hand to build
> > Octave.  The configure script and Makefiles should do all the work.
> 
> At writing your mail I have not noticed your another reply (below) and have 
> not tried the new
> sources.
> *******************
> http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-January/014491.html
> 
> jwe wrote
> | In both cases information of libgnu seemed not to be reflected for 
> liboctave building.
> | Perhaps a flag for '-I../libgnu' is  missing for compiling sources for 
> liboctave.
> 
> Ah, OK, now I see the problem.  I checked in the following change.
> 
>   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ec0c445d0d6f
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> 
> ******************
> 
> I am now testing the below 
> 
> bootstrap.conf: include mkfifo in the module list default tip changeset | 
> files
> bootstrap.conf: remove nonexistent "fstat" module     changeset | files
> include -I../libgnu in AM_CPPFLAGS    changeset | files
> 
> I have perhaps met other problem due to adding -I../libgnu.
> Perhaps it is the problem of gnulib in MinGW environments.
> 
> 
> I will report in the different post.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
>  
> 
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