Re: (mxe-octave) forge package build issues with compiler and dev octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/08/2017 09:13 PM, JohnD wrote:

> From config.log
>
> LTLIBICONV='-L/home/johnd/mxe-octave/build-dev/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib
> -liconv -R/home/johnd/mxe-octave/build-dev/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib'

This seems to be the problem.  It's coming from something in gnulib.  Do 
we need to update again, or is this something that needs to be fixed in 
gnulib?  And when did gcc/g++ stop supporting -R, anyway?

> GNULIB_LINK_DEPS='  -lws2_32 -lws2_32  -ladvapi32  -lws2_32 -lws2_32
> -L/home/johnd/mxe-octave/build-dev/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib -liconv
> -R/home/johnd/mxe-octave/build-dev/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib

This is just set in configure to be a bunch of variables that gnulib's 
bootstrap script recommends using.

jwe