From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan  6 03:09:02 2000
Subject: Compiling octave on alpha ev6
From: chenu-tournier marc <chenu at mail dot com>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 04:09:00 -0500 (EST)

Hello and happy new year.

A new post to explain my compiling problems on a compaq alpha.

At the end of configure I get

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Octave is now configured for unknown

Source directory:     .
Installation prefix:  /home/marchenu/octave_fort
C compiler:           gcc  -g -O2 -Wall
C++ compiler:         c++  -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
-fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall
Fortran compiler:     fort -O
Fortran libraries:     -lUfor -lfor -lFutil -lcpml -lots
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66
-L/usr/alpha-redhat-linux/lib
Use GNU readline:     true
Default pager:        less
gnuplot:

Do internal array bounds checking:       false
Build shared libraries:                  false
Minimal kernel option:                   false
Dynamic Linking (dlopen/dlsym):          true
Dynamic Linking (shl_load/shl_findsym):  false

configure: warning: I didn't find runtest -- install DejaGNU if you want
to run `make check'
configure: warning: I didn't find gnuplot.  It isn't necessary to have
gnuplot
configure: warning: installed, but you won't be able to use any of
Octave's
configure: warning: plotting commands without it.
configure: warning:
configure: warning: If gnuplot is installed but it isn't in your path,
you can
configure: warning: tell Octave where to find it by typing the command
configure: warning:
configure: warning: gnuplot_binary = /full/path/to/gnuplot/binary
configure: warning:
configure: warning: at the Octave prompt.

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And make crashes with

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make[2]: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be
incomplete.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marchenu/octave-2.0.14.93/readline'
echo making all in glob
making all in glob
cd glob ; make all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marchenu/octave-2.0.14.93/glob'
make[2]: *** Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time in the
future (947150934 > 947146882)
gcc -I. -I. -c \
-DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
-DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1
-DHAVE_STRCOLL=1   -g -O2 glob.c -o glob.o
gcc -I. -I. -c \
-DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
-DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1
-DHAVE_STRCOLL=1   -g -O2 fnmatch.c -o fnmatch.o
ar rv libglob.a glob.o fnmatch.o
a - glob.o
a - fnmatch.o
ranlib libglob.a
make[2]: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be
incomplete.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marchenu/octave-2.0.14.93/glob'
echo making all in kpathsea
making all in kpathsea
cd kpathsea ; make all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marchenu/octave-2.0.14.93/kpathsea'
make[2]: *** Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time in the
future (947150942 > 947146883)
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `klibtool.config', needed by
`tex-file.lo'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marchenu/octave-2.0.14.93/kpathsea'
make[1]: *** [kpathsea] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/marchenu/octave-2.0.14.93'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Could it be the warning on the time in future?

Thank you  for your help.
Could you please also reply to chenu at mail dot com

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