Re: make error: dir-ops.cc:61: error: ‘strerror’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’

[Kai Habel]

 On 18.10.2010 02:11, b612x wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to update GNU-Octave from 3.2.4 to 3.3.52 on my machine with
> openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64). Everything had gone well with ./configure, but when
> I
> run make, this is what I'm getting.
>
> user-df205a6ce9:/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52 # make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52'
> Making all in libgnu
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libgnu'
> make  all-recursive
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libgnu'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libgnu'
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libgnu'
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libgnu'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libgnu'
> Making all in libcruft
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libcruft'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/libcruft'
> Making all in liboctave
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/liboctave'
> make  all-am
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/liboctave'
> /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..
> -I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I../libcruft/misc  -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I/usr/include/freetype2   -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g
> -O2 -pthread -g -O2 -MT liboctave_la-dir-ops.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/liboctave_la-dir-ops.Tpo -c -o liboctave_la-dir-ops.lo `test -f
> 'dir-ops.cc' || echo './'`dir-ops.cc
> libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../libgnu -I../libgnu
> -I../libcruft/misc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wall -W
> -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2 -pthread -g -O2 -MT
> liboctave_la-dir-ops.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/liboctave_la-dir-ops.Tpo -c
> dir-ops.cc  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/liboctave_la-dir-ops.o
> dir-ops.cc: In member function ‘bool dir_entry::open(const std::string&)’:
> dir-ops.cc:61: error: ‘strerror’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’
> make[3]: *** [liboctave_la-dir-ops.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/liboctave'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52/liboctave'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> user-df205a6ce9:/home/zxoch/bin/octave-3.3.52 #
>
> I've tried to search a solution and I read that I must update the gnulib
> library, with "cd gnulib; git pull"; however, I cannot find that directory,
> I've tried to search with: find / -name 'gnulib' -type d, but I haven't
> founded any directory.
>
> Any suggestions to update gnulib library or another ones that can help me to
> solve this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance!
Are you behind  a firewall that blocks port 9418? You could open that 
port or change the respective line (~416) in bootstrap

 git clone $shallow git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib

to:

 git clone $shallow http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git

in order to use port 80 (http) for updating gnulib.

@all: Maybe something like this could be used as fallback in bootstrap?

Hope this helps
Kai