Re: Issues & questions building Octave-3.4.2 MinGW

[Philip Nienhuis]

Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> --- On Fri, 2011/7/8, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
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> > 1. Missing Freetype library.
> > Is it included in your OctaveLibs.zip?
> No.
> It is included in gplibs.zip.
> And you should modify 'prefix' in ........./gplibs/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc files.
> according to your environments ()

Yes, that helps.

> In addition the pkg-config.exe is included in ........./gplibs/bin.
> You should add to assign here  in the 'PATH'.
>
> Perhaps configure script find freetype library via pkg-config using information
> in ........./gplibslib/pkgconfig/freetype.pc
>
> Oh I have forgotten.  Now Octave uses libtool so that you may need to modify 
> libfreetype.la in ........./gplibs/lib.

Thanks, that helps too.

Just to be sure, I've updated path settings in all lib*.la, 
libhdf5.settings, etc etc.
I also found a number of "gpnewlib" entries (=> gplibs) and stray 
include dirs starting with "/projetos/gcc/ming/..."

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> > 3. Here and there, while configure does (e.g., here):
> >   :
> > checking for mkdirat... mv: cannot move `conftest.er1' to `conftest.err': 
> > Permission denied no
> >   :
> >
> > ...I get a Windows systray message:
> >     "conftest.exe: Corrupt file"
> > and next boot it wants to run chkdsk.
> > Do you get such error messages too?
>
> On. WIndows XP. It alwas occur in checking hard link.
> However on windows 7, it has not been occurred.
> Perhaps checking routine should be modified for windows XP but I cannot find 
> the way to correct it.

Indeed, it happens when configure tests if rename manages hard links.
I'll file a bug report for this.
(chkdsk-ing a 150 GB NTFS partition with 250,000-or-so files takes very 
long...)

Thanks,

Philip