Re: mxe-octave error on Ubuntu 12.04

[Philip Nienhuis]

tmacchant wrote
> Hello
> 
> I have tried to build mxe-octave on Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit)  by the following
> instruction
> 
> http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer
> 
> In building native-gcc, I have met the following error.
> 
> g++ -c   -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
> -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -W -Wall -Wno-narrowing -Wwrite-strings
> -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long
> -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DGENERATOR_FILE -I. -Ibuild
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/build
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../include
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include
>  
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libdecnumber
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libdecnumber/bid
> -I../libdecnumber
> -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libbacktrace
> -DCLOOG_INT_GMP    \
>               -o build/genconstants.o
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c
> In file included from /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys/resource.h:25:0,
>                  from /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys/wait.h:32,
>                  from
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:352,
>                  from
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:
> /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/resource.h:135:20: error: declaration
> does not declare anything [-fpermissive]
> In file included from
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:0:
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:448:48:
> error: new declaration 'char* strstr(const char*, const char*)'
> /usr/include/string.h:335:1: error: ambiguates old declaration 'const
> char* strstr(const char*, const char*)'
> In file included from
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:0:
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:500:34:
> error: declaration of C function 'const char* strsignal(int)' conflicts
> with
> /usr/include/string.h:566:14: error: previous declaration 'char*
> strsignal(int)' here
> In file included from
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:645:0,
>                  from
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:
> /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../include/libiberty.h:110:36:
> error: new declaration 'char* basename(const char*)'
> /usr/include/string.h:603:28: error: ambiguates old declaration 'const
> char* basename(const char*)'
> cc1plus: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-narrowing"
> [enabled by default]
> make[4]: *** [build/genconstants.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build/gcc'
> make[3]: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build'
> make[1]: *** [build-only-native-gcc] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave'
> 
> Any suggestions?

Maybe reading this thread will help:

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/mxe-octave-cross-build-errors-when-building-native-gcc-tt4662612.html
John D attached some patches there.

Philip



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