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Re: DLD-FUNCTIONS/nprocs.cc:29:25: error: sys/sysinfo.h: No such file or
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Rik |
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Re: DLD-FUNCTIONS/nprocs.cc:29:25: error: sys/sysinfo.h: No such file or directory |
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Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:08:35 -0700 |
On 03/17/2011 11:29 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Iain Murray wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 04:17:27AM -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Rik wrote:
>>>> On 03/16/2011 06:12 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>>> After the changset below ...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a1b2da4967ac
>>>>>
>>>>> ... I encounter an error ...
>> ...
>>>> This is sort of a drag as the whole point was to have access to the
>>>> underlying gnulib module which should be portable.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with this either, but I infer that we should be using the
>>> gnulib nproc module.
>>>
>>> I assume there is some problem with that?
>>
>> No, I just messed up. Sorry. I had misread the gnulib manual and thought
>> that it magically provided drop-in replacements of nprocs and
>> nprocs_conf. In fact, as I think Ben already knew, its nproc module
>> provides similar functionality through its function called
>> "num_processors".
>>
>> I have updated nprocs.cc. It no longer provides `nprocs' and
>> `nprocs_conf', as we can't actually call native system routines of these
>> names across different platforms. Instead it provides `nproc', which
>> like the newish coreutils program of the same name, uses gnulib's
>> `num_processors' function. The new function takes an optional argument
>> to access the functionality available in the underlying gnulib routine.
>>
>> An hg changeset is attached to this email. I don't know if that makes it
>> through the mailing list, so I'll attach it to the patch queue item at:
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7504
>> as well.
>>
>> If Ben could see if this works in Mac OS that would be great. I only
>> have access to GNU/Linux here.
>>
>> Iain.
>> <nproc_gnulib.diff>
>
> Works for me!
3/17/11
I made a few minor mods and checked in the changeset. Hopefully it will
also work on mingw...
--Rik