From bug-request at octave dot org Wed May 11 12:47:50 2005
Subject: --enable-64 fails to compile
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Schloegl Alois <alois dot schloegl at tugraz dot at>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:46:28 -0400

On  8-May-2005, Schloegl Alois wrote:

| 
| John, I tried to compile the CVS-version of octave (2.9.2) for an 
| AMD64-platform. Make failed when configuring with --enable-64. Without 
| --enable-64 it is possible to compile it. config.log is attached below. 
|   Alois ...

| g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  
| -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2 ov-bool-sparse.cc -o 
| pic/ov-bool-sparse.o
| ov-bool-sparse.cc: In member function `virtual bool
|    octave_sparse_bool_matrix::save_hdf5(int, const char*, bool)':
| ov-bool-sparse.cc:431: error: cannot convert `octave_idx_type*' to `int*' in
|    initialization
| ov-bool-sparse.cc:464: error: cannot convert `octave_idx_type*' to `int*' in
|    assignment
| ov-bool-sparse.cc: In member function `virtual bool
|    octave_sparse_bool_matrix::load_hdf5(int, const char*, bool)':
| ov-bool-sparse.cc:608: error: cannot convert `octave_idx_type*' to `int*' in
|    initialization
| ov-bool-sparse.cc:643: error: cannot convert `octave_idx_type*' to `int*' in
|    assignment

I'm not sure what to do about fixing the binary data file formats to
handle 8 byte dimensions.

If you don't care about HDF5 support, disable that and try building
with --enable-64.  I think that will work.

jwe



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