From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct 30 13:44:50 2000
Subject: gperf
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Lippert, Ross A." <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com>
Cc: "'octave-maintainers at octave dot org'" <octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:44:23 -0600

On 30-Oct-2000, Lippert, Ross A. <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com> wrote:

| I think the problem is that oct-gperf.h isn't being generated properly.
| I think I need to install gperf or something.  ./configure did not complain
| about this to me at all, and I certainly didn't get any sort of notice that
| it had failed other than oct-gperf.h ended up being an empty file.

Octave's configure script does test for gperf, and complains if it
doesn't find it.

Was gperf missing on your system, or was it an old version that didn't
do the right thing?

jwe