Re: 3.2.3 RC1

[Benjamin Lindner]

Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
>
> Sorry!
> The error comes from two origin.
> The patch
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/69d05d1a63b9
> --- a/configure.in      Fri Jun 26 21:12:09 2009 +0100
> +++ b/configure.in      Thu Jul 09 15:04:34 2009 -0400
> @@ -1654,8 +1654,8 @@
>  esac
>  
>  case "$canonical_host_type" in
> -  *-*-msdosmsvc)
> -    ## The %T format specifier for strftime is reportedly broken,
> +  *-*-msdosmsvc | *-*-mingw*)
> +    ## The %T and %e format specifiers for strftime are not implemented
>      ## so use our version.  We could use an actual configure test
>      ## for this.
>    ;;
> The reversing this patch is necesarry for my case.

But then calls to strftime might segfault, as numerous bugs have been 
reported on this.

See the thread at 
http://www.nabble.com/%22dir%22-crashing-oactve-3.2.0-mingw32-td24234760.html
for a fix for the link error.


> causes error at the link.
> So I rewrote  the configure.in.  Therefore autoconf was executed.
>
> In addition, autoconf for my msys seemed to be broken.
> I have update the latest Msys-1.0.11 (Sat Jul 18 2009 ).

I also ran into some issues with the newly relased packages. I tried to 
cirumvent it by *not* using the "mingw32" versions, rather than the 
"msys" versions.
This is not what's suggested, but it worked for me, at least up to now.

benjamin