Re: : error building nsis installer with mxe-octave

[JohnD]

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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:45:08 -0600
> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> To: JohnD <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: : error building nsis installer with mxe-octave
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> On 01/12/2015 03:17 PM, JohnD wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden
> >> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:55 PM
> >> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> >> Subject: Re: : error building nsis installer with mxe-octave
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Message: 5
> >>> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:50:59 -0600
> >>> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> >>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
> >>> Subject: error building nsis installer with mxe-octave
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> >>> I'm seeing the following error when attempting to build an nsis
> >>> installer
> >> with the
> >>> current mxe-octave build tools.  Does anyone else have this problem?
> >>> Full
> >> nsis
> >>> build log is attached.
> >>>
> >>> i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -o build/release/stub_bzip2/stub_bzip2.exe -s
> >>> -mwindows -nostdlib -Wl,--exclude-libs,msvcrt.a
> >>> -Wl,--file-alignment,512
> >>> -Wl,-e,address@hidden -Wl,-Map,build/release/stub_bzip2/stub_bzip2.map
> >>> -T SCons/Config/linker_script build/release/stub_bzip2/bgbg.o
> >>> build/release/stub_bzip2/components.o
> >>> build/release/stub_bzip2/exec.o build/release/stub_bzip2/fileform.o
> >>> build/release/stub_bzip2/Main.o
> >> Cut .....
> >>> make[1]: *** [build-only-nsis] Error 2
> >>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/scratch/jwe/src/mxe-octave-hg'
> >>>
> >>> real      0m14.608s
> >>> user      0m11.608s
> >>> sys       0m1.728s
> >>>
> >>
> >> I haven't seen it on my system - done a full build of stable-octave
> >> with
> > latest pull
> >> of mxe this morning on my fedora box with no issues and a
> >> default-octave
> > build
> >> last night
> >
> > By current I am assuming with the mxe pull with the change for uuid ?
> > Or is that the change that is breaking the build for you?
> >
> 
> Sorry, I should have included the hg id.  I'm at
> 
>    80b2b5cfde0f tip @
> 
> But like I said, it seems to have been a transient problem, possibly due
to old
> files from an earlier build.
> 
> jwe
> 

My build suddenly started failing on nsis like yours. Deleting libuuid.dll.a
and libuuid.dll made it build again - not sure if coincidence or not.