Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 5, 2011, at 3:55 PM, c. wrote:

> On 5 Nov 2011, at 17:09, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> See the above.  That doesn't involve an octave-forge package at all,
>> but just assigning an entry to a structure--inspired by dir.m, but
>> still just a structure.
> 
> I recall having the same problem a long time ago and, 
> if memory doesn't fail me (which is not a rare occurrence lately),  
> it was due to using a wrong version of flex and using "/sw/lib/flex/bin/flex"
> provided by the package:
> 
> flex-devel       2.5.35-2     Fast lexical analyser generator
> 
> solved the problem.
> 
> I'm not sure this is useful information I'm not even sure you need flex at 
> all 
> when building from a release and not from development sources.
> 
> HTH anyway,
> c.

I thought flex was only used during autoconfig, but I can easily be wrong. 

The same cs-list error has also cropped up when the optimization level was set 
to "-O2".

        
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/safer-way-to-use-gnulib-tt1656732.html#a1656741

I don't know which version of GCC Thomas was using, but if all else fails a 
change in the optimization level might be tried.

Ben