Re: Octave 2.1.70 with cygwin

[Paul Thomas]

John,

I can confirm your experience - I used gcc-3.2, rather than the gcc 
provided, by exporting the symbols for CC, CXX and F77.  It all works fine.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
To: "Carine Simon" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: Octave 2.1.70 with cygwin


> On 23-May-2005, Carine Simon wrote:
>
> | So, I've got Cygwin with gcc 3.3.3-3. I don't know if you need versions
> | of anything else.
> | Then in octave-2.1.71, I've done a ./configure --enable-shared
> | And then a make. All the beginning of the make went OK but then, I had
> | that problem that it couldn't find
> | "/home/carine/octave-2.1.71/doc/interpreter/octave.texi" and ask me to
> | type another name. As I've said, in fact this file does exist.
> | When I stop the make process, it writes the following texput.log file;
> | -------------------------------------------
> | This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=etex
> | 2005.5.20)  20 MAY 2005 18:04
> | entering extended mode
> | **/home/carine/octave-2.1.71/doc/interpreter/octave.texi
> |
> | ! Emergency stop.
> | <*> ...e/octave-2.1.71/doc/interpreter/octave.texi
> |
> | End of file on the terminal!
> |
> | No pages of output.
> | -----------------------------------------
> | And then it tells me
> | /usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.
> | /usr/bin/texi2dvi: see octave.log for errors.
> | Make[3]: *** [octave.dvi] Error 1 (ignored)
> | Make[2]: *** [interpreter] Interrupt
> | Make[1]: *** [doc] Interrupt
> | Make: *** [all] Interrupt
> |
> | Do you need any more information?
>
> I've never used MiKTeX.  I've always use the teTeX package from
> Cygwin.  Last night I built octave-2.1.71 on a current Cygwin system
> using only Cygwin tools with the commands
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/octave/2.1.71 --enable-shared --disable-static
> make
> make install
>
> and had no problems.
>
> Is the octave.texi file empty or missing?  Does your MiKTeX
> installation work for other files?
>
> jwe
>
>
>
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