[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #43319] Octave dev version fails to build with --enable-64

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #25, bug #43319 (project octave):

@richard (comment #24)

You've done a lot of work which at first sight shouldn't have been needed. One
of the issues you correctly mention is lack of documentation.

The easiest would (should) have been to build a 64-bit Octave using
mxe-octave; that would have saved you lots of work as mxe-octave builds all
the required dependencies for you w. 64-bit indexing. See comment #13 in this
thread.

JWE didn't tell there how to get it installed (AFAIK on Linux Octave has
hard-coded paths, contrary to Windows where Octave also has hard-coded paths
but relative to a relocatable Mingw/MSYS installation); but I suppose this is
a matter of proper PREFIX stuff and maybe it's even easier.

That said, last week I tried this (building a Linux 64-bit idx. Octave) with
mxe-octave (for bug #43908) but already at the very start I ran into issues,
i.e., when building pkg-config (its configure couldn't get gcc to work). ATM I
have no time/priority to sort that out sufficiently for a bug report; maybe my
Linux distro is the issue here (mageia-4 64b, almost out-of-support, 4.1 is
current). I'll pickup there later on.


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