Build problems

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Nov-2010, keithspg wrote:

| I was able to build the 3.3.54 tar ball on Ubuntu 10.10. This works fine. I
| was investigating a problem with dlmread and wanted to compile the latest
| mercurial to see if the problem is still there and was unable to build it. I
| followed the instructions here: 
| http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=browse&diff=1&id=BuildFromSource
| http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=browse&diff=1&id=BuildFromSource 
| 
| I get the graphics error when I configure, but I got that with 3.3.54. When
| I compile it, though, I get only so far and it crashes. I updated the
| mercurial and went through the ./autogen.sh, ./configure, make steps again
| and get to the same error:
| 
| ...
| 
| lex.ll:3596: error: ‘EVENTS’ was not declared in this scope
| lex.ll:3597: error: ‘CLASSDEF’ was not declared in this scope
| make[3]: *** [liboctinterp_la-lex.lo] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/octave/src'
| make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/octave/src'
| make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/octave'
| make: *** [all] Error 2

What is in the generated oct-gperf.h file?

Do you have gperf installed?

Did configure warn about gperf?

jwe