Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <03f501bf6ee7$352ee630$6d298dc7@itc.nrcs.usda.gov> From: "John Huddleston" To: , "Glenn R. Fulford" References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 32 DOT 20000204075332 DOT 006c8e34 AT pop3 DOT paradise DOT net DOT nz> Subject: Re: Compiling Scilab and Octave: Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 01:09:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Edit the config/config.guess file and add 32 to the end of the CYGWIN match line making it cygwin32 John Huddleston ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn R. Fulford To: Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:53 AM Subject: Compiling Scilab and Octave: > Hi I've been trying for ages (without much success) to compile the packages > Scilab and Octave under Cygwin. > http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/ http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/ > > I'm a bit of a novice with Cygwin, and unix programming, so I was > wondering if someone can help me interpret the error messages I am getting > out of configure and make. > > I am using Cygwin 20.1 (later snapshot, corresponding to Droolview > implementation 200001119) and gcc 2.95.2. Running on Windows 95. > Gnu make v. 3.78.1 Autoconf 2.13 Bash 2.03 > Scilab v2.5, Octave v. 2.0.15. > > The messages I am getting for Scilab are: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SCILAB 2.5: > On running ./configure I got the following error: > > checking host system type... i586-pc-cygwin > configure error: unable to configure for host i586-pc-cygwin > > I checked inside the file configure.in and found the statement: > *-*-cygwin32) > I figure this has to be changed: > I tried changing cygwin32 to just cygwin, and deleted config.cache and ran > ./configure > again, but it didn't help. > > Can anyone suggest anything? > > ------------------------------------------------ > The messages I am getting for Octave are: > > running ./configure > configure warning: > > I didn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses, -lcurses or -ltermlib > > > Make errors: > > --- Clock skew detected. > > --- File ... has modification time in the future > 2000-01-31 20:11:10 > 2000-01-31 20:11:09 > > --- make unrecognized option -rdynamic > > --- undefined reference 'tputs' > ld returned 1 exit status > > Any help you can give me will be certainly appreciated. > Thanks very much. Glenn. > > Glenn Fulford > fulfordg AT agresearch DOT cri DOT nz OR glenn DOT fulford AT paradise DOT net DOT nz > > Canberra, ACT 2600 > Web page: http://www.ma.adfa.edu.au/~grf Ph: +61 2 6241 8113 > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com