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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:54:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: Compiling Scilab and Octave: 
To: "Glenn R. Fulford" <glenn DOT fulford AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "Glenn R. Fulford" <glenn DOT fulford AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote:
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> 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?
> 

Yea.  Get the latest autoconf package from your favorite GNU mirror.  Copy the
config.guess script from this package to the scilab directory.


> ------------------------------------------------
> The messages I am getting for Octave are:
> 
> running ./configure
> configure warning: 
> 
> I didn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses, -lcurses or -ltermlib
> 

termcap is an easy build.  Find it on your favorite GNU mirror, build and
install.


> 
> Make errors:
> 
> --- Clock skew detected. 
> 
> --- File ... has modification time in the future
>   2000-01-31 20:11:10 > 2000-01-31 20:11:09
> 

Any network drives involved.  The time fileserver is ahead of the time on the
workstation.

> --- make unrecognized option -rdynamic
> 

What is -rdynamic?

> --- undefined reference 'tputs'
>     ld returned 1 exit status

tputs will be resolved with termcap.

Regards, 

=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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