Re: Problems with mkoctfile in new Octave 3.4.1

[José Luis García Pallero]

El día 19 de junio de 2011 19:14, José Luis García Pallero
<address@hidden> escribió:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to compile the mercurial sources with the last mkoctfile
> fix patch and when I execute ./autogen.sh in order to generate the
> configure script the proccess is waiting for a long time in the step
> "Cloning into gnulib...". I'm waiting since 10 minutes and autogen.sh
> is not terminated. The messages of ./autogen.sh is:
>
> address@hidden:~/Desktop/octave$ ./autogen.sh
> generating source lists for liboctave/Makefile...
> generating doc/interpreter/images.mk...
> generating src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk...
> bootstrapping...
> build-aux/bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out octave sources...
> build-aux/bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> Cloning into gnulib...
>
> Is needed any order previous to ./autogen.sh in order to build Octave
> from Mercurial sources? I'm in Debian Sid and I have installed the
> autotools insfrastructure (autoconf 2.68, automake 1.11.1, etc)

Apparently, cloning gnulib from git (autogen.sh try it internally) has
some problems.
At least in Debian Sid, gnulib is present in the repositories so it
can be installed easy and fast. Once gnulib is installed, ./autogen.sh
must be executed with the flags:

--no-git --gnulib-srcdir=/path/to/gnulib

--gnulib-srcdir is mandatory although gnulib is installed on standard path

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