Re: Again error with graphics.h

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Andrea Spadaccini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2008/5/27 Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>:
>
>>> $ cd src
>>> $ make graphics.h
>>>
>>
>> is graphics.h created after this command?
>> Building graphics.h requires awk. Do you have awk installed? Is it set
>> properly in the Makeconf file?
>
> You are right, it is not created! I thought that I had read that it
> was correctly created.
> I've got AWK.
>
> Here's the error:
> address@hidden:~/octave-hg/octave/src$ make graphics.h
> making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
> defaults.h is unchanged
> making graphics.h
> mawk: ./genprops.awk: line 413: syntax error at or near ,
> mawk: ./genprops.awk: line 439: syntax error at or near ,
>

It seems that the awk scripts in Octave are only compatible with GNU
Awk, even using gawk --posix doesn't work. A rewrite would probably
take some time; I suggest switching to gawk for the moment.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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