Re: Problem compiling GNU APL 1.8 on LMDE 5

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

Hi Brian,

regarding Postgres, you need to make sure that not only the library but 
also its development
diles are present. To check this, run program

pg_config

which comes with Postgres. If Postgres is installed in a non-standard 
place, you
can specify the path to it with ./configure --with-postgresql=<path>

See also ./configure --help.

Regarding the compiler warning, see *README-11-bogus-compiler-warnings 
*and Christian Robert's email.

Best Regards,
Jürgen


On 5/20/22 10:04 PM, Mr. Brian B. McGuinness wrote:
> I just upgraaded to Linux Mint Debian Edition 5.  This requires me to 
> reinstall GNU APL, which was on the root partition, which was wiped 
> and reformatted.
>
> I tried
>
> ./configure --with-postgresql RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes
>
> but the configure program couldn't find PostgreSQL, even though it is 
> installed.  I don't know whether this is because I need to install 
> some optional PostgreSQL package.
>
> So then I tried
>
> ./configure  RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes
> make
>
> and got an error message:
>
> In file included from Shape.cc:21:
> Shape.hh: In member function ‘Shape Shape::insert_axis(Axis, 
> ShapeItem) const’:
> Shape.hh:68:46: error: ‘*(const ShapeItem*)((char*)& ret + <unknown> 
> *8 +8)’ may be used uninitialized in this function 
> [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>    68 |      loop(r, MAX_RANK)   rho[r] = other.rho[r];
>       | ~~~~~~~~~~~^
> cc1plus: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> so APL wouldn't compile.  So I tried
>
> ./configure
> make
>
> and got the same error.