Re: compiling octave fails on building flex

[Marshall Floyd]

./configure --enable-devel-tools --enable-binary-packages
--enable-octave=default --enable-qt5 --enable-64 --enable-windows-64

[build]    build-flex

Failed to build package build-flex!
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Makefile:533: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
'/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.6.4.build'
/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/Makefile:852: recipe for target 
'build-only-build-flex' failed
make[2]: *** [build-only-build-flex] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b'
real    0m13.483s
user    0m11.572s
sys    0m1.533s
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[log]      /home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/log/build-flex

Makefile:852: recipe for target 
'/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/installed-packages/build-flex' 
failed
make[1]: *** 
[/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/installed-packages/build-flex] 
Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b'
Makefile:565: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

(I can add info from the logs specified if that will be useful, I've 
looked at the errors before).
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./configure --enable-devel-tools --enable-binary-packages
--enable-octave=default --disable-system-opengl --enable-native-build
--enable-lib64-directory --enable-pic-flag --disable-system-x11-libs
--disable-system-fontconfig --disable-system-gcc --enable-qt5 gnu-linux



[download] build-gcc
[build]    build-gcc

Failed to build package build-gcc!
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Makefile:931: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
'/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/tmp-build-gcc/gcc-7.2.0.build'
/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/Makefile:852: recipe for target 
'build-only-build-gcc' failed
make[2]: *** [build-only-build-gcc] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b'
real    15m14.593s
user    13m55.151s
sys    0m57.155s
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[log]      /home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/log/build-gcc

Makefile:852: recipe for target 
'/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/installed-packages/build-gcc' failed
make[1]: *** 
[/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b/installed-packages/build-gcc] 
Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/marshall/mxe-octave-f89c67818a6b'
Makefile:565: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2


It has never failed on gcc before, but it didn't try building flex this 
time either.

On 12/8/2017 5:52 AM, JohnD wrote:
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 21:33:17 -0700
> > From: Marshall Floyd <address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: compiling octave fails on building flex
> > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> >
> > I have tried building mxe-octave in Ubuntu (in Virtual Box) with the
> > intent of eventually cross compiling for Windows, but I'd be happy if I
> > could get a linux version. I want many of the bug fixes and enhancements
> > in the development version. I have used instructions from
> > http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer, http://wiki.octave.org/MXE,
> > and http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems. Compilation fails
> > while building flex. How can I fix the problem with building flex, or
> > compile octave using the installed version of flex? I've tried a few
> > things to avoid building flex, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that,
> > e.g. ./configure --without-flex or make PKG_EXCLUDE='flex', and other
> > variations. I can't find it now, but I've seen a partial answer on the
> > help email list to a similar problem of setting some make option or
> > looking at one of the .mk files for guidance suggesting that building
> > make shouldn't have to be done. How can I do that?
>
> What options do you pass to configure when building, and what error occurs?
>
> For creating a 64 bit windows installer I use the following configure
> options:
>
> ./configure --enable-devel-tools --enable-binary-packages
> --enable-octave=default --enable-qt5 --enable-64 --enable-windows-64
>
> For creating a linux native, I use:
>
> ../configure --enable-devel-tools --enable-binary-packages
> --enable-octave=default --disable-system-opengl --enable-native-build
> --enable-lib64-directory --enable-pic-flag --disable-system-x11-libs
> --disable-system-fontconfig --disable-system-gcc --enable-qt5 gnu-linux