Re: interpfcn/toplev.cc:1295:24: error: too many decimal points in number

[John W. Eaton]

On 03/01/2013 08:12 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> The lines in toplev.cc are all with in octave_config_info.  Line 1295 is below.
>
> 1293       { false, "CXX_VERSION", OCTAVE_CONF_CXX_VERSION },
> 1294       { false, "DEFAULT_PAGER", OCTAVE_DEFAULT_PAGER },
> 1295       { false, "DEFS", OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS },
> 1296       { false, "DL_LD", OCTAVE_CONF_DL_LD },
> 1297       { false, "DL_LDFLAGS", OCTAVE_CONF_DL_LDFLAGS },
>
> The OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS definition in oct-conf.h begins with ...
>
> #define OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME="GNU Octave"
>
> Which has an nested double-quotes. Other definitions also have the nested 
> double-quote.  For example, OCTAVE_CONF_UGLY_DEFS
>
> #define OCTAVE_CONF_UGLY_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME="GNU Octave"<snip>
>
> I presume the interior quotes should be single?  And the OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS 
> should begin as?
>
> #define OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME='GNU Octave'

On my system, the inner double quote characters are escaped:

  #define OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME=\"GNU Octave\" ...

> In any event, I don't see where the problem was introduced, or why this happens 
> on MacOS X.

I'm guessing some difference in sed or shell escape processing.

jwe