Re: compiling development sources

[Ben Abbott]

On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at 10:52AM, "Carlo de Falco" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just finished building development sources on OSX 10.5 using fink to  
>satisfy dependencies
>the build completed without errors but I can't run 'make check'
>the error I get is at line 100 of dir.m where the command 'lstat' is  
>invoked but it seems lstat is missing.
>In config.log I have
>

I encountered this problem last week, and jwe provided a solution for me.

http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-February/015033.html

The part you need is the change to syscalls.cc, below.

-DEFUN (lstat, args, ,
+DEFUNX ("lstat", Flstat, args, ,

I don't know if this change should be committed to the sources, or if this is a 
MacOS X specific issue.

Ben