From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Apr 12 04:24:16 1999
Subject: Trouble building Octave on HP
From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:24:17 +0200


I am trying to build Octave 1.2.13.95 for HP and got the following error
message:

===========================================================================
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/signal/rafael/octave-2.0.13.95/liboctave'
c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall Bounds.cc
In file included from /usr/include/sys/resource.h:21,
                 from /opt/gcc/lib/gcc-lib/hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20/2.8.1/include/sys/wait.h:83,
                 from /opt/gcc/lib/gcc-lib/hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20/2.8.1/include/stdlib.h:231,
                 from /opt/gcc/include/g++/cstdlib:6,
                 from Array.h:32,
                 from MArray.h:31,
                 from dColVector.h:30,
                 from Bounds.h:32,
                 from Bounds.cc:33:
/usr/include/sys/time.h:337: `extern' can only be specified for objects and functions
gmake[2]: *** [Bounds.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/signal/rafael/octave-2.0.13.95/liboctave'
gmake[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/signal/rafael/octave-2.0.13.95'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
===========================================================================

Here are my configure options :

./configure --prefix=/public/local.hp9000s700 --enable-shared --enable-shl --enable-lite-kernel

It looks like file /usr/include/sys/time.h for the HP system is buggy.

Does somebody knows what is wrong and how to fix this?

Thanks in advance,

--
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr>
Institut de la Communication Parlee / INP Grenoble, France
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/~rafael