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

[Philip Nienhuis]

David Grundberg-3 wrote:
> 
> On 06/19/2010 08:27 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> 
>> Update:
>> After upgrading my broken Mandriva 2009.1 to 2010.0, including an
>> implied upgrade from gcc4.3.2 to 4.4.1, this error has disappeared.
>> (In the gcc bug tracker I found that the fix had been backported only to
>> 4.3.3, nothing said about 4.3.2.)
>>
>> But in return, I encountered other build errors.
>> During "make", the build hangs endlessly on the doc building:
>>
>> 
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>
>> (full load on 1 cpu core)
>>
>> Crtl-C and restarting make gives texi2dvi errors.
>> Just to be sure, I attach the gzipped config.log.
>>
> 
> Haven't seen it.  If you don't want the docs built, you can just disable 
> them during configuration.
> 
>> I'll be away from this box for over a week, I'll follow any answers tru
>> mail.
>>
>> BTW David, as regards your last answer further down in the thread,
>> adding CHOLMOD, AMD, sparsesuite etc was easy, as Mandriva 2010.0 has
>> them in the repository. I only needed to compile arpack myself.
> 
> I run everything off my home directory and no root, so I had to compile 
> most of them myself.
> 
> David
> 

Update, just FYI (sorry for long delay):
- Trying to build 3.2.4, 3.3.51 (ftp) & 3.3.51+ (tip) consistently fails.

Configuring with --enable-docs=no did end with a compiled octave. Yet when
trying "make check" it hung too (3.2.4 & 3.3.5.1 from ftp).
Then, after "make install" (which worked in the sense that I didn't note
errors flying by over the terminal) and trying octave I also got a hung
terminal (with one cpu core at 98 % octave load).
I conclude that the actual octave "executable" got built such that it got in
an infinite loop somewhere. AFAICS (please correct me if I'm wrong) in the
doc building process the newly built octave "executable" is invoked, and
that got stuck leading to a hang in the docs building stage.
3.3.51+ (tip) still insisted on building the docs (...) but the build
crashed there.

Anyway, I strongly suspect Mandriva quirks. 
While building octave-3.2.4 was OK in my previous (but fubarred) 2009.0
system, newer Mandriva versions give me many problems (not only with
building octave BTW).
Mandriva 2010.1 (still in testing) has a binary octave 3.2.4 rpm which gives
me some hope for more stable build tools. I'll upgrade when I find time
(later this summer) and will try again.

Thanks,

Philip

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