Re: " strerror not found" while compiling octave-3.3.51

[Philip Nienhuis]

David Grundberg wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 10:29 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While trying to build octave-3.3.51 (downloaded .tar.gz earlier this
> > week) I get the following error:
> >
> > (System: Mandrivalinux 2009.1 CoreDuo 2.5 Ghz, 2GB RAM, 32b)
> >
> > <./configure>
> > <make>
> > :
> > mv -f .deps/liboctinterp_la-defun.Tpo .deps/liboctinterp_la-defun.Plo
> > /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> > -I.. -I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I../libcruft/misc -I../liboctave
> > -I../liboctave -I. -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp
> > -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat
> > -g -O2 -pthread -g -O2 -MT liboctinterp_la-dirfns.lo -MD -MP -MF
> > .deps/liboctinterp_la-dirfns.Tpo -c -o liboctinterp_la-dirfns.lo `test
> > -f 'dirfns.cc' || echo './'`dirfns.cc
> > libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../libgnu -I../libgnu
> > -I../libcruft/misc -I../liboctave -I../liboctave -I. -I. -g -O2
> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wall -W -Wshadow
> > -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2 -pthread -g -O2 -MT
> > liboctinterp_la-dirfns.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/liboctinterp_la-dirfns.Tpo
> > -c dirfns.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/liboctinterp_la-dirfns.o
> > dirfns.cc: In function "int octave_change_to_directory(const
> > std::string&)":
> > dirfns.cc:86: error: "strerror" is not a member of "gnulib"
> > make[3]: *** [liboctinterp_la-dirfns.lo] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/philip/octave-3.3.51/src'
> > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/philip/octave-3.3.51/src'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/philip/octave-3.3.51'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> My problem was that the C++ standard headers on my system were buggy.
> For example, the faulty cstring header did an
>
> #include_next <string.h>
>
> instead of the correct (or by gnulib required)
>
> #include <string.h>
>
> Read more here:
>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/build-fails-strerror-is-not-a-member-of-gnulib-td1680164i20.html
>
>
> You can check this by running:
>
> grep '#include.*string.h' /usr/include/c++/*/cstring

Yep, 5 mins after clicking the "Send" button, Nabble search showed me 
that thread. Murphy at work.

Indeed, I got the same cstring header problem (I had gcc 4.3.2) and I've 
upgraded gcc to 4.4.0 but in the meantime my Madrivalinux got borked (I 
suspect Archlinux wasn't too careful with mounting Mandriva partitions). 
Again, Murphy at work :-(

I'll install Mandrivalinux 2010.1 and try again (with newer build tools) 
to build octave-3.3.51.
Hopefully the contest.c errors will disappear, too.

Thank you,

Philip