gnulib woes & run-octave fails, suggestions?

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Apr-2010, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:

| I' trying to compile the development version of Octave, and have
| encountered some gnulib-related problems:
| 
| 1. My system does not have fchownat, and compilation fails in misc/quit.cc:
| 
| libtool: compile:  /opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. 
-I/opt/local/include -I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I/opt/local/include -O0 -m64 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 
-I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast 
-Wformat -O0 -m64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -O0 -m64 -MT misc/libcruft_la-quit.lo 
-MD -MP -MF misc/.deps/libcruft_la-quit.Tpo -c misc/quit.cc  -fno-common -DPIC 
-o misc/.libs/libcruft_la-quit.o
| In file included from 
/opt/local/include/gcc44/c++//x86_64-apple-darwin10/bits/gthr-default.h:42,
|                 from 
/opt/local/include/gcc44/c++//x86_64-apple-darwin10/bits/gthr.h:162,

So this is an OS X system?

Precisely what "development version" are you trying to compile?

Is the your copy of the gnulib sources up to date?  It changes
frequently.

jwe