Re: of-control compile failing on MXE

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/08/2018 01:50 PM, Rik wrote:
> Has anyone taken a look at the buildbot logs for the MXE builds lately?
>
> They seem to be failing on the compilation of the development branch of 
> Octave with the of-control package:
>
> [build] of-control Failed to build package of-control! 
> ------------------------------------------------------------ File 
> "/scratch/buildbot/slaves/jwe-debian-x86_64-0/w64-32-on-debian/src/tools/pkg-install.py", 
> line 237, in configure_make raise Exception, "make failed during build - 
> stopping install" Exception: make failed during build - stopping install 
> /scratch/buildbot/slaves/jwe-debian-x86_64-0/w64-32-on-debian/src/Makefile:855: 
> recipe for target 'build-only-of-control' failed make[1]: *** 
> [build-only-of-control] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/scratch/buildbot/slaves/jwe-debian-x86_64-0/w64-32-on-debian/src' real 
> 1m51.484s user 1m33.134s sys 0m11.348s 
> ------------------------------------------------------------ [log] 
> /scratch/buildbot/slaves/jwe-debian-x86_64-0/w64-32-on-debian/src/log/of-control 

Thanks for the reminder.

It looks like I caused this problem by removing the global 
f77_exception_encountered variable.  I guess I should restore it but tag 
it as deprecated and make it always be false.

jwe