RE: MSVC compiler support [patch 1]: Extra define's

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Oct-2006, address@hidden wrote:

| >> 3) Disable compilation of \"doc/\" under MSVC as I couldn't get it work yet
| >
| > Why do you need to do this? Is it because TeX is missing on your
| > system? If so, then I'd like to disable the parts of the doc
| > generation that can't work because of missing tools rather than simply
| > disable all of it.
| 
| This is too much of a problem to build the doc from CVS (with MSYS and
| Win32) and I think I'll give up on that part.
| 
| A tiny patch is the following:
| 
| Index: configure.in
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvs/octave/configure.in,v
| retrieving revision 1.534
| diff -c -p -r1.534 configure.in
| *** configure.in        26 Oct 2006 01:18:33 -0000      1.534
| --- configure.in        26 Oct 2006 15:13:37 -0000
| *************** case \"$canonical_host_type\" in
| *** 1052,1057 ****
| --- 1061,1067 ----
|       SHLBIN=dll
|       LIBPRE=
|       SH_LDFLAGS=\"-shared -g\"
| +     library_path_var=PATH
|       ## Extra compilation flags.
|       XTRA_CRUFT_DEFS=\"-DCRUFT_DLL\"
|       XTRA_OCTAVE_DEFS=\"-DOCTAVE_DLL\"

I made this change.

I'm not sure what has changed, but today your mail is arriving with
all the " characters quoted with backslashes.  That caused the above
patch to fail to apply using the patch program.

jwe