Re: Help updating swig for octave 4.0.0

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 21:18:21 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Now getting:
> 
> checking octave testcase default_arg_values
> error: function delete_B requires at least 1 arguments
> error: called from
>     ./default_constructor_runme.m at line 17 column 7
> 
> and several messages like this:
> 
> checking octave testcase refcount (with run test)
> refcount_wrap.cxx: In static member function 'static octave_value
> swig::traits_from_stdseq<Seq, T>::from(const sequence&)':
> refcount_wrap.cxx:3477:30: error: 'INT_MAX' was not declared in this scope
>        if (size <= (size_type)INT_MAX) {
>                               ^
> ../../../Examples/Makefile:444: recipe for target 'octave_cpp' failed

Sorry, I can't see the generated code or clear fixes for those at the
moment.

But I have at least cloned your PR branch now and have built swig. Looks
like you resolved the INT_MAX issue already. I'll see if I hit the same
errors as you and see if I can't help you resolve the remaining issues,
maybe later today or this weekend.

Aside: swig's configure unfortunately doesn't work if you are building
against a version of Octave whose corresponding mkoctfile executable is
not called "mkoctfile". I have a local hack to work around that, if I
get time I may submit a proper fix for that.

In your packages for Fedora do you install /usr/bin/mkoctfile-4.0.0 or
do you only retain the unversioned name (as we do in Debian)?

-- 
mike