Re: mxe-octave error on Ubuntu 12.04

[Philip Nienhuis]

<John Donoghue added in To:>

Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> --- On Thu, 2014/3/13, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>
> > tmacchant wrote
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have tried to build mxe-octave on Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit)  by the following
> > > instruction
> > >
> > > http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer
> > >
> > > In building native-gcc, I have met the following error.
> > >
> > > g++ -c   -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
> > > -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -W -Wall -Wno-narrowing -Wwrite-strings
:
<looong snip>
:
> > > cc1plus: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-narrowing"
> > > [enabled by default]
> > > make[4]: *** [build/genconstants.o] Error 1
> > > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > > `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build/gcc'
> > > make[3]: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > > `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build'
> > > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > > `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build'
> > > make[1]: *** [build-only-native-gcc] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave'
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Maybe reading this thread will help:
> >
> > http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/mxe-octave-cross-build-errors-when-building-native-gcc-tt4662612.html
> > John D attached some patches there.
:
> Philip
>
> With native-gcc4.patch obtained from the thread suggeted by you, the native-gcc 
> was successfully built and finally octave-3.8.1 installer was bbtained.
>
> I appreciate for your advise.
>
> BTE, will the patch by John D be included in the hg repository?

I don't know if it is specific to some Linux distros.
But as you needed it on Ubuntu, John D on Fedora, and me on Mageia, I'd 
say it is needed somehow.

Philip