Re: making octave-forge on OS X -- "forced strip"?

[Per Persson]

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 10:05 PM, John O'Leary wrote:

> Hi,
>         I found the INSTALL.MacOSX file that came with octave-forge quite
> useful

Thanks!

> except for one line:
>
> "Comment out forced strip command in extra/mex/Makefile"
>
> Could someone tell me what a "forced strip command" is?  I've read
> through that Makefile and I can't find any line that I could imagine
> someone would call "forced strip."

Apparently that "forced strip" went away between version 1.4 and 1.5  
some three months ago, docs need an update.
CVS diff if you're interested:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/octave/octave-forge/ 
extra/mex/Makefile.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5

("Forced" refers to the makefile overriding mkoctfile behaviour)

>  Anyway, I built octave-2.1.40-1
> using fink built from CVS sometime in the past couple days, and I
> followed all the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX for building
> octave-forge except for the above-mentioned "forced strip" line.  After
> a sane-looking run of the configure script, my attempts to make
> octave-forge fail with the following messages:
>
> g++ -c -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -I/sw/include/octave-2.1.40
> -I/sw/include/octave-2.1.40/octave -I/sw/include -g -O2 -Wall
> -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 mex.cc -o mex.o
> mex.cc: In function `octave_value_list call_mex(callstyle, const
>     octave_value_list&, int)':
> mex.cc:504: parse error before `*' token
> mex.cc:505: parse error before `*' token
> mex.cc:506: `argin' undeclared (first use this function)
> mex.cc:506: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
> function
>     it appears in.)
> mex.cc:507: `argout' undeclared (first use this function)
> make[2]: *** [mex.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [mex/] Error 2
> make: *** [extra/] Error 2
> Does the above sound like something that would be fixed if I commented
> out the forced strip line, or am I doing something else wrong?

Compiles OK here, updated from CVS about 5 min ago.
(Did you use CVS or tarball? What version of tarball in that case?)

> Google
> searches on "forced strip", naturally, returned a list of porn sites.

LOL!

/Per
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Per Persson
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications

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