Re: compile error please help

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Dec-2008, Doug Stewart wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 13-Dec-2008, Doug Stewart wrote:
| >
| > | I did a
| > | 
| > | hg pull http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
| > | hg update
| > | ./autogen.sh
| > | ./configure
| > | make
| > | 
| > | and I end at this:
| > | 
| > | 
| > | 
| > | making comment-list.d from comment-list.cc
| > | making c-file-ptr-stream.d from c-file-ptr-stream.cc
| > | making bitfcns.d from bitfcns.cc
| > | making Cell.d from Cell.cc
| > | make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/doug/octave2/src'
| > | make[2]: Entering directory `/home/doug/octave2/src'
| > | making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
| > | defaults.h is unchanged
| > | make[2]: --cppflags: Command not found
| > | make[2]: --ldflags: Command not found
| > | making oct-conf.h from oct-conf.h.in
| > | oct-conf.h is unchanged
| > | g++ -c -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc 
| > | -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2 lex.cc -o pic/lex.o
| > | lex.l: In function ?int is_keyword_token(const std::string&)?:
| > | lex.l:1038: error: expected initializer before ?*? token
| > | lex.l:1040: error: ?kw? was not declared in this scope
| > | lex.l:1046: error: ?break_kw? was not declared in this scope
| > | lex.l:1047: error: ?case_kw? was not declared in this scope
| > | lex.l:1048: error: ?catch_kw? wa
| > | 
| > | + more errors.
| > | 
| > | I am learning how to do all this so I can contribute more:
| > | So any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
| >
| > You need gperf.
| >
| > jwe
| >
| >   
| 
|  
|  ./configure  also said it found gperf
|  
|  checking lex output file root... lex.yy
|  checking lex library... -lfl
|  checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
|  defining LFLAGS to be -t -I
|  checking for bison... bison -y
|  checking whether ln -s works... yes
|  checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
|  checking for desktop-file-install... desktop-file-install
|  checking for gnuplot... gnuplot
|  checking for less... less
|  checking for gperf... gperf
|  checking for gs... gs
|  checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
|  checking for texi2dvi... texi2dvi
|  checking for texi2pdf... texi2pdf
|  
|  any other ideas ?

Was the file

  src/oct-gperf.h

generated correctly when you ran make the first time?  I would guess
that it was not.

jwe