Re: new build ends with mkfifo related problems in file-ops.cc

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:49 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 22-Jan-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | I think that fixed the problem. Thank! ... now I'm back to one I 
> encountered yesterday.
> | 
> | Making all in interpreter
> | ../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 'txt');"
> | error: invalid character `?' (ASCII 206) near line 1, column 1
> | parse error near line 1 of file 
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/.libs/octave
> | 
> |   syntax error
> | 
> | >>> ????
> |          ^
> | 
> | error: parse error while reading script file 
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/.libs/octave
> | error: source: error sourcing file 
> `/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/.libs/octave'
> | 
> | make[3]: *** [voronoi.txt] Error 1
> | make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> | make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> | make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> I don't know what might be causing this.  Could it be some variant of
> the problem you were having earlier with flex?
> 
> | error: `pkg' undefined near line 20 column 1
> | error: called from:
> | error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/startup/main-rcfile 
> at line 20, column 1
> | 
> | Program exited with code 01.
> 
> I think this is related to the changes I made for getopt.  I checked
> in the following additional change.  Does it help?
> 
>  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b49d47b637b7
> 
> jwe

Thanks, that fixed the problem.

Octave now build's and runs, but when using the gnuplot backend I see ...

octave:1> plot(1:10)
error: `unlink' undefined near line 156 column 7
error: called from:
error:   
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m
 at line 156, column 7
error:   
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m
 at line 39, column 18
error:   
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m
 at line 112, column 29
error:   
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/gnuplot_drawnow.m
 at line 99, column 5
octave:2> 

Ben