Re: mxe-octave cross-build errors when building native-gcc

[John D]

Message: 6
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:45:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: mxe-octave cross-build errors when building native-gcc
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John Donoghue-2 wrote
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> With mxe-octave
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> (hg summary:  
> parent: 3556:22b42ac3fd68 tip
>  native-gcc: remove unintended changes to native-gcc.mk from cs
> b1ca68ddd02c)
> <snip>
> I also didn't manage to get gl2ps included in the build (reported 
> earlier); checking the various related files didn't yield any clues why.
> Now, based on your analysis of native-gcc behavior, it occurs to me 
> that I do not have gl2ps installed on that Mageia system itself, so 
> I'm wondering if similar mechanisms occur as with native-gcc (i.e., 
> mxe is trying to pull in gl2ps stuff from the host build system but 
> fails as it isn't there in my case). A check could be installing gl2ps 
> on Mageia and then rebuilding mxe-octave with my "old" mxe-octave build
chain.

Just tried that (with older mxe build chain), didn't help.
I'm at a loss why gl2ps doesn't get included in the build.

Philip
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I tried moving system gl2ps headers on my box to simulate not installed and
it still build fine.
If you run:
rm installed-packages/gl2ps
and then rerun make, does it build gl2ps ?