From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec 18 15:41:13 1996
Subject: warnings in compilation of 2.0
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it>
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:40:40 -0600

On 18-Dec-1996, Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it> wrote:

: While compiling octave on Alpha with gcc 2.7.2 I get these warnings:

: getopt.c: In function `_getopt_internal':
: getopt.c:497: warning: type mismatch in implicit declaration for built-in function `strlen'
: 
: gcc  -I. -I. -I.. -I./..     -O2  -c getopt.c
: getopt.c: In function `_getopt_internal':
: getopt.c:486: warning: type mismatch in implicit declaration for built-in function `strlen'

I suspect that this is harmless.  It is also really a bug in the GNU
getopt function and I don't know the right fix (look at the comments
just above the #include <string.h> line in getopt.c).

: ar: Warning:ignoring second definition of d1mach_ defined in archive

I believe the following patch fixes this problem:

Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/jwe/src/master/octave/libcruft/misc/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -c -r1.17 -r1.18
*** Makefile.in	1996/11/20 23:08:48	1.17
--- Makefile.in	1996/12/11 18:34:57	1.18
***************
*** 15,22 ****
  SPECIAL := machar.c d1mach-tst.for dostop.c f77-extern.cc \
  	f77-fcn.c f77-fcn.h lo-error.c lo-error.h
  
! SPECIAL_DEPEND := d1mach.o machar.o dostop.o f77-extern.o \
! 	f77-fcn.o lo-error.o
  
  EXTERNAL_DISTFILES = $(DISTFILES)
  
--- 15,21 ----
  SPECIAL := machar.c d1mach-tst.for dostop.c f77-extern.cc \
  	f77-fcn.c f77-fcn.h lo-error.c lo-error.h
  
! SPECIAL_DEPEND := machar.o dostop.o f77-extern.o f77-fcn.o lo-error.o
  
  EXTERNAL_DISTFILES = $(DISTFILES)
  

jwe