Re: issues compiling 2.1.69 on FreeBSD 5.4

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Apr-2005, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> wrote:

| Oops, I missed something.
| 
| Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
| > Hi,
| > 
| > The octave port has been marked as broken, since it does not build on
| > FreeBSD. I've tried it myself and had no luck (long lines):
| > 
| > g++ -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src 
-I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W 
-Wshadow -g -O2 -rdynamic \
|                                                                               
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| > -L..  -fPIC -L/usr/local/lib -o octave \
| 
| 
| > main.o  \
| > -L../liboctave -L../libcruft -L../src  \
| > -loctinterp -loctave  -lcruft  ../glob/glob.o ../glob/fnmatch.o  \
|                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| >  /usr/local/lib/libalapack_r.so -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas  -lreadline  
-lncurses -lm  -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -lg2c -lm
| > ../liboctave/liboctave.so: warning: warning: tempnam() possibly used 
unsafely; consider using mkstemp()
| > ../liboctave/liboctave.so: undefined reference to `fnmatch(char const*, 
char const*, int)'
| > 
| > Any ideas?
| 
| Those ../glob should not be there. For some reason your makefile is messed up.
| Try to remake it with "make distclean" and configure etc...

You are right that they should not be there for 2.9.x, but the glob
sources are still present in 2.1.x.  It looks to me like there is a
declaration problem, either a missing extern "C" or one is used where
it should not be.

jwe



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