Re: mxe-octave error on Ubuntu 12.04

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Thu, 2014/3/13, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

> tmacchant wrote
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have tried to build mxe-octave on Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit)  by the following
> > instruction
> > 
> > http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer
> > 
> > In building native-gcc, I have met the following error.
> > 
> > g++ -c   -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti
> > -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -W -Wall -Wno-narrowing -Wwrite-strings
> > -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-format-attribute -pedantic -Wno-long-long
> > -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> > -DGENERATOR_FILE -I. -Ibuild
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/build
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../include
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libcpp/include
> >  
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libdecnumber
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libdecnumber/bid
> > -I../libdecnumber
> > -I/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../libbacktrace
> > -DCLOOG_INT_GMP    \
> >         -o build/genconstants.o
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c
> > In file included from /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys/resource.h:25:0,
> >                  from /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys/wait.h:32,
> >                  from
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:352,
> >                  from
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:
> > /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/resource.h:135:20: error: declaration
> > does not declare anything [-fpermissive]
> > In file included from
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:0:
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:448:48:
> > error: new declaration 'char* strstr(const char*, const char*)'
> > /usr/include/string.h:335:1: error: ambiguates old declaration 'const
> > char* strstr(const char*, const char*)'
> > In file included from
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:0:
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:500:34:
> > error: declaration of C function 'const char* strsignal(int)' conflicts
> > with
> > /usr/include/string.h:566:14: error: previous declaration 'char*
> > strsignal(int)' here
> > In file included from
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/system.h:645:0,
> >                  from
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/genconstants.c:28:
> > /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/../include/libiberty.h:110:36:
> > error: new declaration 'char* basename(const char*)'
> > /usr/include/string.h:603:28: error: ambiguates old declaration 'const
> > char* basename(const char*)'
> > cc1plus: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-narrowing"
> > [enabled by default]
> > make[4]: *** [build/genconstants.o] Error 1
> > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build/gcc'
> > make[3]: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build'
> > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave/tmp-native-gcc/gcc-4.8.2.build'
> > make[1]: *** [build-only-native-gcc] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/octave/mxe-octave'
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Maybe reading this thread will help:
> 
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/mxe-octave-cross-build-errors-when-building-native-gcc-tt4662612.html
> John D attached some patches there.
> 
> Philip

Philip

With native-gcc4.patch obtained from the thread suggeted by you, the native-gcc 
was successfully built and finally octave-3.8.1 installer was bbtained.

I appreciate for your advise.

BTE, will the patch by John D be included in the hg repository?

Regards

Tatsuro