From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Nov  2 13:48:27 1998
Subject: Troubles compiling octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Pascal A. Dupuis" <dupuis at lei dot ucl dot ac dot be>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:48:00 -0600 (CST)

On  2-Nov-1998, Pascal A. Dupuis <dupuis at lei dot ucl dot ac dot be> wrote:

| I'm trying to compile octave on my i486 machine, where big compilations
| result in a segmentation fault in gcc every hour or every compilation,
| whichever is more problematic :-(
| Standard cure is to delete the lastly compiled file, and start back again.
| Usually, I succeed in compilign big packages this way. Unfortunately, it
| seems that there is a bug in one of octave Makefiles. If I restart a
| compilation, 'make' tries to rebuild liboctave/pic/*.o and src/pic/*.o
| before going further.

Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


*** src/Makefile.in~	Fri May 15 19:18:37 1998
--- src/Makefile.in	Mon Nov  2 13:37:39 1998
***************
*** 177,182 ****
--- 177,190 ----
  	$(OCTAVE_LIBS) \
  	$(FLIBS) $(LEXLIB) $(TERMLIBS) $(LIBS)
  
+ stmp-pic: pic
+ 	 at if [ -f stmp-pic ]; then \
+ 	  true; \
+ 	else \
+ 	  echo "touch stmp-pic"; \
+ 	  touch stmp-pic; \
+ 	fi
+ 
  pic:
  	 at if [ -d pic ]; then \
  	  true; \
***************
*** 207,213 ****
  liboctinterp.$(SHLEXT): $(PICOBJ)
  	$(SH_LD) $(SH_LDFLAGS) -o $ at  $^
  
! $(PICOBJ): pic
  
  builtins.cc: $(DEF_FILES) mkbuiltins
  	 at echo making $@ from $(DEF_FILES)
--- 215,221 ----
  liboctinterp.$(SHLEXT): $(PICOBJ)
  	$(SH_LD) $(SH_LDFLAGS) -o $ at  $^
  
! $(PICOBJ): stmp-pic
  
  builtins.cc: $(DEF_FILES) mkbuiltins
  	 at echo making $@ from $(DEF_FILES)
***************
*** 300,305 ****
--- 308,314 ----
  	rm -f *.$(LIBEXT) *.o *.d *.df *.oct pic/*.o
  	rm -f builtins.cc defaults.h oct-conf.h
  	-rmdir pic
+ 	rm -f stmp-pic
  	if $(SHARED_LIBS); then rm -f *.$(SHLEXT); fi
  .PHONY: clean
  
*** liboctave/Makefile.in~	Mon Feb  2 23:33:37 1998
--- liboctave/Makefile.in	Mon Nov  2 13:44:57 1998
***************
*** 99,104 ****
--- 99,112 ----
  all: libraries
  .PHONY: all
  
+ stmp-pic: pic
+ 	 at if [ -f stmp-pic ]; then \
+ 	  true; \
+ 	else \
+ 	  echo "touch stmp-pic"; \
+ 	  touch stmp-pic; \
+ 	fi
+ 
  pic:
  	 at if [ -d pic ]; then \
  	  true; \
***************
*** 129,135 ****
  liboctave.$(SHLEXT): $(PICOBJ)
  	$(SH_LD) $(SH_LDFLAGS) -o $ at  $^
  
! $(PICOBJ): pic
  
  check: all
  .PHONY: check
--- 137,143 ----
  liboctave.$(SHLEXT): $(PICOBJ)
  	$(SH_LD) $(SH_LDFLAGS) -o $ at  $^
  
! $(PICOBJ): stmp-pic
  
  check: all
  .PHONY: check
***************
*** 177,182 ****
--- 185,191 ----
  clean:
  	rm -f *.a *.o *.d pic/*.o
  	-rmdir pic
+ 	rm -f stmp-pic
  	if $(SHARED_LIBS); then rm -f *.$(SHLEXT); fi
  .PHONY: clean