Re: mxe-octave cross-build errors when building native-gcc

[Philip Nienhuis]

John D wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:45:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: mxe-octave cross-build errors when building native-gcc
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> John Donoghue-2 wrote
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> > With mxe-octave
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> > (hg summary:
> > parent: 3556:22b42ac3fd68 tip
> >   native-gcc: remove unintended changes to native-gcc.mk from cs
> > b1ca68ddd02c)
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> > I also didn't manage to get gl2ps included in the build (reported
> > earlier); checking the various related files didn't yield any clues why.
> > Now, based on your analysis of native-gcc behavior, it occurs to me
> > that I do not have gl2ps installed on that Mageia system itself, so
> > I'm wondering if similar mechanisms occur as with native-gcc (i.e.,
> > mxe is trying to pull in gl2ps stuff from the host build system but
> > fails as it isn't there in my case). A check could be installing gl2ps
> > on Mageia and then rebuilding mxe-octave with my "old" mxe-octave build
> chain.
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> Just tried that (with older mxe build chain), didn't help.
> I'm at a loss why gl2ps doesn't get included in the build.
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> Philip
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> I tried moving system gl2ps headers on my box to simulate not installed and
> it still build fine.
> If you run:
> rm installed-packages/gl2ps
> and then rerun make, does it build gl2ps ?

Yes I already tried that this afternoon, it does rebuild gl2ps itself.
But it isn't included in the Octave build:

1- octave_config_info ("features").GL2PS_H = 0

2- Octave gives errors when trying to print an fltk-generated plot 
complaining about missing gl2ps

Thanks,

Philip