Re: mxe-octave: build fails with ".../unistd-wrappers.h:56:8: error: 'pid_t' does not name a type"

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/23/2016 02:25 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>
> > > With that patch applied, I now get "undefined reference to
> > > 'rpl_gethostname':
> > >
> > > :
> > > libtool: link: x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib
> > > libgui/graphics/.libs/libgui-graphics.a
> > > libtool: link: x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -std=gnu++11 -pthread -Wall -W
> > > -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
> > > -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -Wl,-rpath-link
> > > -Wl,/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_64b_20160617/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib
> > >
> > >
> > > -Wl,--export-all-symbols -o src/.libs/mkoctfile.exe
> > > src/src_mkoctfile-mkoctfile.o
> > > -L/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_64b_20160617/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib
> > >
> > >
> > > liboctave/wrappers/.libs/libwrappers.a libgnu/.libs/libgnu.a -lgdi32
> > > -lws2_32 -luser32 -lkernel32 -pthread
> > > liboctave/wrappers/.libs/libwrappers.a(liboctave_wrappers_libwrappers_la-unistd-wrappers.o):
> > >
> > >
> > > In function `octave_gethostname_wrapper':
> > > /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_64b_20160617/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/liboctave/wrappers/unistd-wrappers.c:320:
> > >
> > >
> > > undefined reference to `rpl_gethostname'
> > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > Makefile:14562: recipe for target 'src/mkoctfile.exe' failed
> > > make[4]: *** [src/mkoctfile.exe] Error 1
> >
> > That is with an "--enable-windows-64" cross-build.
> >
> > Without that configure option (32-bits) Octave-4.1.0+ gets built fine.
>
> I see.  I pushed a patch for gnulib when building default-octave.  It
> seems to work for me now with --enable-windows-64.

Works for me too.

Thank you very much,

Philip