From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec  1 19:58:12 1997
Subject: build problem under Solaris 2.5.1
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Ray Anderson <raymonda at radium dot Eng dot Sun dot COM>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 19:59:33 -0600

On  1-Dec-1997, Ray Anderson <raymonda at radium dot Eng dot Sun dot COM> wrote:

| I am attempting to build Octave 2.0.9 on a Sun Ultra-2 running
| Solaris 2.0.9. The compiler is gcc version cygnus-2.7-96q4
| 
| The build proceed fairly smoothly until I get down to making the src
| directory.
| 
| When it tries to make the builtins I get the following:

  ...

| /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
| gmake[2]: *** [octave] Error 2
| gmake[1]: *** [src] Error 2
| gmake: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| 
| Apparently the (null) statement near the Xlinker flags is causing a problem
| from what I can tell.
| 
| Has anyone seen this particular problem or have a suggestion of what
| to check and/or modify?

Yes.  Look at Makeconf and delete `-Xlinker -R -Xlinker (null)'
wherever it appears then run make again.

I think this problem has been fixed for the next release.

Thanks,

jwe