Re: [mxe] stable build from source

[John W. Eaton]

On 7/14/20 1:52 PM, Markus Mützel wrote:
> Am 14. Juli 2020 um 18:01 Uhr schrieb "Stefan Pofahl":
> > Is there anyone who succeeded building an octave-stable during the last week?
>
> The buildbots are running build jobs for MXE Octave continuously and they seem 
> to be doing fine:
> http://buildbot.octave.org:8010/#/waterfall
>
> > I have now tried to compile it for more than a week, for at least 7 times.
> > I tried both, new clone and removal of the old make folder and update clone and 
> > clean
> > make folder.
> > It always stops after or during the compilation of "libbiosig", attached you 
> > can find the log-file.
>
> I can't see any error in the log file you attached. libbiosig seems to compile 
> correctly for you.
>
> > Here is what I do:
> > 1.) clone repository or update
> > hg clone https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave[https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave]
> >
> > or
> > hg -v pullhg -v update
> >
> > 2.) build ./configure
> > ./bootstrap
> >   
> >
> > 3.) Clean Build Directory, if makefile exist inside the build-folder
> > make clean
> >
> >   
> > 4.) Generate Makefile inside of build directory
> > /home/mylogin/hg/mxe-octave/configure --enable-devel-tools \--enable-windows-64 
> > \--enable-octave=stable \--enable-binary-packages \--with-ccache 
> > \--with-pkg-dir=/home/mylogin/builds/octave_pkg
> >
> > 4.) Compile Octave-stable inside the build directory
> > make all 7z-dist JOBS=4 --trace --keep-going
> >
> > Any recommendations?
>
> Running "make clean" after bootstraping seems strange. That probably 
> effectively reverts what the bootstrap script was doing.

Unless things have changed, mxe-octave is not set up to properly build 
in a directory separate from the source tree, so if you are trying that, 
I expect it will fail.

If you are building the stable version, then you'll need to create a 
dist file for version 6.  In the buildbot configs, that is the step that 
executes

  nice -n 19 make JOBS=8 hg-octave-dist hg-octave-branch=stable

That is supposed to build a copy of the current sources from the stable 
branch, run make dist to create a tar.lz file, and copy it to your 
PKG_SRC directory.

jwe