From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Nov  6 10:04:47 2001
Subject: Building Octave-2.1.35 using Cygwin errors in rl_clear_screen
From: "William D. Kirby" <wdkirby at ix dot netcom dot com>
To: Octave Bug Report <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:03:48 -0600


Building Octave-2.1.35 using Cygwin-1.3.3-2 and XFree-4.1 on a Windows
NT v4.0 SP3

I get an error message
oct-rl-edit.c: In function `octave_rl_clear_screen':
oct-rl-edit.c:63: too few arguments to function `rl_clear_screen'
make[2]: *** [oct-rl-edit.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

This occured after changing the function call from _rl_clear_screen to
rl_clear_screen to correct a previous compiler error. The particular
code
involved is as follows:

from /octave-2.1.35/liboctave/oct-rl-edit.c
void
octave_rl_clear_screen (void)
{
  extern void _rl_clear_screen ();

  _rl_clear_screen ();
}

from /usr/include/readline/readline (v4.2-3)
readline.h
extern READLINE_EXPORT(int, rl_clear_screen) __P((int, int));

The configure command was ./configure --with-fftw --enable-static
--x-includes=/usr/x11r6/include --x-libraries=/usr/x11r6/lib



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