From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct 30 15:28:54 2000
Subject: RE: gperf
From: "Lippert, Ross A." <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com>
To: "'John W. Eaton'" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "'octave-maintainers at octave dot org'" 	 <octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:28:07 -0500

gperf does not exist on my system.   at $GPERF in Makeconf was
blank, and the command that got executed when
"$GPERF -a octave.gperf" or whatever got executed was
"-a octave.gperf > oct-gperf.h" with error "-a not found", but
that not being enough an error to stop the make.  Further
downstream, the make derails because oct-gperf.h is an empty file.

I have installed flex, bison, and gperf (the programs which I
think are complained inadequately about) now, and have run from
a fresh CVS this morning and it built just fine.


-r

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Eaton [mailto:jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:44 PM
To: Lippert, Ross A.
Cc: 'octave-maintainers at octave dot org'
Subject: gperf


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