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Re: Compiling Scilab and Octave:


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 <glenn.fulford@paradise.net.nz>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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@agresearch.cri.nz OR glenn.fulford@paradise.net.nz
>
> Canberra, ACT 2600
> Web page: http://www.ma.adfa.edu.au/~grf  Ph: +61 2 6241 8113
>
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