Re: new build ends with mkfifo related problems in file-ops.cc

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:22 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 23-Jan-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | Octave now build's and runs, but when using the gnuplot backend I see ...
> |
> | octave:1> plot(1:10)
> | error: `unlink' undefined near line 156 column 7
> | error: called from:
> | error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m
>  at line 156, column 7
> | error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m
>  at line 39, column 18
> | error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m
>  at line 112, column 29
> | error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/scripts/plot/gnuplot_drawnow.m
>  at line 99, column 5
> | octave:2>
>
> The unlink function should always be defined.  Was there some problem
> in constructing the builtins.cc file?  It should have a function
> called install_syscalls_fcns that contains the line
>
>   XDEFUN_INTERNAL (unlink, args, , "-*- texinfo -*-\n  ...  ")

See the other thread about unlink problem. I think it has actually
been compiled as rpl_unlink.

Michael.