Re: Time errors while building mxe-octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:

I am getting this error while trying to cross-build the latest mxe-octave.

In file included from /home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/liboctave/system/oct-time.h:26:0,
                 from /home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/liboctave/numeric/oct-rand.cc:40:
/home/ani/mxe-octave/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.7.2/include/c++/ctime:72:11: error: '::gmtime' has not been declared
/home/ani/mxe-octave/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.7.2/include/c++/ctime:73:11: error: '::localtime' has not been declared
make[6]: *** [numeric/numeric_libnumeric_la-oct-rand.lo] Error 1

Is this a problem specific to my system, or some gnulib error?

Probably specific to your system. I tried cross-compiling here (update local repo, deleted installed-packages/octave, then "make octave"). It recompiled openssl, qt, qscintilla, suitesparse and octave without errors.

Michael.