Re: Octave 2.1.59 and octave-forge on Solaris 8

[Paul Kienzle]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> Octave 2.1.59 compiles cleanly with gcc 3.3.3 on Solaris 8.
>
> Octave-forge-2004.09.09 has the following three problems:
>
> -- Makeconf has some bashisms. Setting SHELL to bash
>    (SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bush in my case) solved it

I incorporated a number of patches from Dan McMahill to
remove the bashisms.  Please let me know which are
remaining.

> -- configure still adds "-R/usr/openwin/lib" to Makeconf
>    (I thought this problem was solved some time ago?)
>    Had to delete it manually.

I don't have an automatic solution for the -R/usr/openwin/lib
problem.  I'm guessing it is showing up in the X_LIBS variable?
You don't say in your messages.  You should be able to
override this during configure using something like:

        ./configure X_LIBS="-lX11 ..."

or maybe

        X_LIBS="-lX11 ..." ./configure

The other option is to submit a patch to address@hidden which
allows mkoctfile to process -R... directives correctly, though these
are likely to be compiler and environment specific, so the patches
may not be accepted.

> -- listen.cc still has "round" in it. I add the line:
>
> inline double round(double x) {return (x < 0 ? ceil (x - 0.5) : floor 
> (x + 0.5));}
>
>    to the top of the file and it seems to fix it.

Since the value should always be positive, and since it is only
for debug purposes anyway, I replaced round with ceil directly.

Thanks,

- Paul



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