Re: Time errors while building mxe-octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/02/2013 12:58 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden
> <mailto: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.

I suppose it is possible, but it seems odd that it would be a system 
difference if the compilation is happening with the copy of GCC that is 
built during the build process.

jwe