Re: Problem in oct-conf.h when building on OSX

[Thomas Treichl]

> I am having a problem building Octave CVS (as of 9PM June 27th) on OSX.  
> It seems like I had this problem once before and the solution was to 
> make sure GNU SED was being used instead of the SED supplied by Apple 
> with OSX, however that doesn't seem to work anymore.  The error occurs 
> when compiling toplev.cc:
> toplev.cc:803: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:803: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:803: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:803: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:803: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:848: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:848: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:848: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:848: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> toplev.cc:848: error: unknown escape sequence: '\040'
> make: *** [toplev.o] Error 1
> 
> Line 803 involves the macro OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS and Line 848 involves 
> OCTAVE_CONF_UGLY_DEFS.  I think the problem is that there are a couple 
> of items in each of the defs that end up having the wring number of 
> slashes.  That is, the first few items of both OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS and 
> OCTAVE_CONF_UGLY_DEFS have five slashes
> "-DPACKAGE_NAME=\\\\\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\\\\\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\\\\\ 
> -DPACKAGE_STRING=\\\\\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\\\\\ ...<many more items 
> here that look to be formed OK>"
> 
> I could be completely off base (and don't completely follow the make 
> system and how/when oct-conf.h gets generated).  I have tried modifying 
> these lines to see if it is the problem, but it seems as if oct-conf.h 
> is getting regenerated every time I run make.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> John Swensen
> 
> P.S. My configure line = "./configure CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4 F77=gfortran 
> CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib --prefix=/sw/opt/octave/2.9.12+"

Maybe John,

seems like the same problem that I've had some time ago

  
http://www.nabble.com/Compilation-of-toplev.cc-fails-on-OSX-tf3768666.html#a10655420

Does it help?

  Thomas


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