Re: Building Octave on Mint 2008

[Rik]

On 03/10/2012 07:52 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:39:53 -0500
> From: Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>
> Subject: Fwd: [bug #35739] discontinuous derivative from spline w/ 3
>       points  and endpoint derivative
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> Hi folks. I'm trying to figure out why Marco can't build from hg
> sources. He reports the problem below.
>
> TIA,
> - Jordi G. H.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marco Caliari <address@hidden>
> Date: 7 March 2012 09:58
> Subject: Re: [bug #35739] discontinuous derivative from spline w/ 3
> points and endpoint derivative
> To: address@hidden
>
>
> Dear Jordi,
>
> I'm stucked here
>
> # Build and test your local copy of the source tree.
> cd octave
> sh ./autogen.sh
>
> [...]
>
> build-aux/bootstrap: libtoolize -c -f ...
> Remember to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' to `configure.ac'.
> You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to 
> `aclocal.m4'.
> Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux'.
> build-aux/bootstrap: aclocal --force -I 'm4' ?...
> configure.ac:73: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_GNU_SOURCE
> m4/extensions.m4:19: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:310: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from...
> m4/extensions.m4:19: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
> configure.ac:73: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
>
> My system is quite old (Linux Mint 4, 2008), could it be a problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marco
There are some minimum requirements for the various autotools.  They are:

Automake >= 1.11
Libtool >= 2.2.2
Autoconf >= 2.6.0

There are checks in configure.ac which should verify this, but it's worth
checking anyways.

I found several other threads that indicate that it is a problem which has
been patched.  This one seemed the most promising if you wanted to hack
something yourself.

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/qpid-dev/200812.mbox/%253C87fxko4gfy.fsf%40rho.meyering.net%253E

--Rik