Re: make error: dir-ops.cc:61: error: ‘ strerror ’ is not a member of ‘ gnulib ’

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Oct-2010, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:

| run autogen.sh.  You should be able to build Octave from a snapshot
| tar file by doing (for example):
| 
|  tar zxf octave-3.3.53.tar.gz
|  cd octave-3.3.53
|  ./configure
|  make
| 
| That's what I have been doing. I get:
| 
| dir-ops.cc: In member function ‘bool dir_entry::open(const std::string&)’:
| dir-ops.cc:61: error: ‘strerror’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’
| make[3]: *** [liboctave_la-dir-ops.lo] Erreur 1
| make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /home/cabuz/comsolwork/BLASlibsetc/
| octave-3.3.52/liboctave »
| make[2]: *** [all] Erreur 2
| make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/cabuz/comsolwork/BLASlibsetc/
| octave-3.3.52/liboctave »
| make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
| make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/cabuz/comsolwork/BLASlibsetc/
| octave-3.3.52 »
| make: *** [all] Erreur 2

Try 3.3.53.  It has a a more current copy of gnulib which may fix this
problem.  If not, then perhaps you should submit a bug report with
enough information for someone to reproduce the problem.  Please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit a useful bug
report.

jwe