Re: interpfcn/toplev.cc:1295:24: error: too many decimal points in number

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2013, at 8:21 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 03/01/2013 08:12 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> The lines in toplev.cc are all with in octave_config_info.  Line 1295 is 
>> below.
>> 
>> 1293       { false, "CXX_VERSION", OCTAVE_CONF_CXX_VERSION },
>> 1294       { false, "DEFAULT_PAGER", OCTAVE_DEFAULT_PAGER },
>> 1295       { false, "DEFS", OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS },
>> 1296       { false, "DL_LD", OCTAVE_CONF_DL_LD },
>> 1297       { false, "DL_LDFLAGS", OCTAVE_CONF_DL_LDFLAGS },
>> 
>> The OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS definition in oct-conf.h begins with ...
>> 
>> #define OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME="GNU Octave"
>> 
>> Which has an nested double-quotes. Other definitions also have the nested 
>> double-quote.  For example, OCTAVE_CONF_UGLY_DEFS
>> 
>> #define OCTAVE_CONF_UGLY_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME="GNU Octave"<snip>
>> 
>> I presume the interior quotes should be single?  And the OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS 
>> should begin as?
>> 
>> #define OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME='GNU Octave'
> 
> On my system, the inner double quote characters are escaped:
> 
>  #define OCTAVE_CONF_DEFS "-DPACKAGE_NAME=\"GNU Octave\" ...
> 
>> In any event, I don't see where the problem was introduced, or why this 
>> happens on MacOS X.
> 
> I'm guessing some difference in sed or shell escape processing.
> 
> jwe

John/Rik,

Any reason this would be due to a Rik's changeset?

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/23af74103b2c

Or is it more likely something changed on my end?

Ben