Re: compiling development sources

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Feb-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:

| 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.

Sorry, I forgot about this problem.  I'll make this change today.

I don't think anyone responded to my question in anthoer thread about
whether we should just do this for all DEFUN functions to avoid any
potential problems with function names being defined somewhere.

jwe