Re: compiling development sources on mac

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 16, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build the octave development sources on OS X 10.5.8,
> using dependencies installed via MacPorts.  I haven't tried to build
> development sources since before gnulib/libtool was added to the process.
> Currently I can get stuck in one of two places.
> 
> (1) trouble with libgnu/string.h
> 
> My refresh-and-compile command is
> 
>       hg pull && 
>       hg update && 
>       LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize ./autogen.sh &&  
>       ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3 F77=gfortran-mp-4.3 
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib && 
>       nice make -j4 
> 
> The compile fails with
> 
>       libtool: compile:  g++-mp-4.3 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. 
> -I/opt/local/include -I../libgnu -I../libcruft/misc -I../liboctave 
> -I../liboctave -I. -I. -I/opt/local/include -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp 
> -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include 
> -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -g -O2 -MT 
> liboctinterp_la-lex.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/liboctinterp_la-lex.Tpo -c lex.cc  
> -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/liboctinterp_la-lex.o
> In file included from lex.cc:20:
>       ../libgnu/string.h:135: error: expected ',' or '...' before '__dest'
>       ../libgnu/string.h:137: error: nonnull argument with out-of-range 
> operand number (argument 1, operand 2)
>       lex.cc:281: warning: use of old-style cast
>       [many more warnings about old-style casts]
>       make[3]: *** [liboctinterp_la-lex.lo] Error 1
>       make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>       make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>       make: *** [all] Error 2

Rob,

I came across the thread below.

        
http://old.nabble.com/string.h:82:-error:-expected-`,'-or-`...'-before-"__dest"-tt17579480.html#a17579907

Which prompted me to add the line below at the top of md5.c ... My error was 
different from yours. My build failed at md5.c, not with lex.cc

        #include <config.h>

I needed to add this line to the top of ...

        liboctave/md5.c
        src/gl2ps.c

With those two changes, my build completed without error. However it doesn't 
run due to dylib conflicts which, I understand, are specific to my 
configuration.

Ben

p.s. as this discussion related to the developers sources, I've moved it to the 
maintainers mail list.