Re: Build failure: ‘floor’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’

[Michael B Allen]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:24 AM, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Michael B Allen  wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Qianqian Fang  wrote:
>>> On 02/11/2011 08:43 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build the latest package from the website on a Fedora 9
>>>> system but I've hit a road block:
>>>>
>>>> Range.cc: In function ‘double tfloor(double, double)’:
>>>> Range.cc:440: error: ‘floor’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’
>>>> Range.cc:444: error: ‘floor’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’
>>>> make[3]: *** [liboctave_la-Range.lo] Error 1
>>>
>>> you need to go to your gnulib subfolder and do a
>>> git pull && git update
>>>
>>> since so many people have encountered similar errors
>>> due to non-synchronized gnulib. For developers, it might
>>> be worthwhile putting a command to do so automatically
>>> everytime people run "configurate" or "make" (e.g.,
>>> add a dependency in the target in the Makefile).
>>
>> Thanks Qianqian but that didn't work:
>>
>>  $ git pull
>>  fatal: Not a git repository
>>
>> I suspect this is because I didn't pull the sources from git in the
>> first place? I downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz.
>>
>> Now what?
>
> "go to your gnulib subfolder"
> and repeat

  $ cd octave-3.4.0/libgnu/
  $ git pull
  fatal: Not a git repository

Wha?