Re: Octave in CVS has busted configure

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Jul-2000, Dirk Eddelbuettel <address@hidden> wrote:

|   "John" == John W Eaton <address@hidden> writes:
|   John> I think it makes more sense to keep them in a separate list so I
|   John> applied the patch and checked it in to the CVS archive.
| 
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| 
| Steven kindly told me that too, so I tried the CVS update on a fresh
| directory.  The weird thing is that I now fail to compile Octave. It dies on
| src/lex.cc (see below). 
| 
| Thomas Walter runs essentially the same configuration (a current Debian
| potato setup on i386), and it works for him.  I am out of ideas. We tried
| modifying the c++ compiler options, but no change. Thomas and I have the same
| version of flex and friends.
| 
| Does anybody else have an idea ?
| 
| Dirk
| 
| lex.l:1090: `switch_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1091: `unwind_protect_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1095: `gplot_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1100: `gsplot_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1105: `replot_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1110: `function_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1142: `magic_file_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1152: `magic_line_kw' undeclared (first use this function)
| lex.l:1047: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement
| lex.l:1026: warning: unused variable `const int octave_kw'
| lex.l:1024: warning: unused variable `int len'
| lex.l:1169: warning: control reaches end of non-void function 
`is_keyword(const string &)'

You need gperf.  I intend to modify Octave's configure script to warn
about it if it is missing, as it currently warns if you don't have lex
or bison installed.

jwe