[MXE] "libinterp/co refcn/sighandlers.cc:392:35: error: 'strsignal' was not declared in this scope"

[PhilipNienhuis]

While crossbuilding Octave-4.1.0+ ( in MXE I get an error related to missing
strsignal().  From the log:

grep -i -R strsignal *

:
checking whether strsignal is declared without a macro... no
:
:
checking for strsignal... no
:
:
/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_w64_20151116/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/sighandlers.cc:
In function 'void generic_sig_handler(int)':
/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_w64_20151116/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/sighandlers.cc:392:35:
error: 'strsignal' was not declared in this scope
   my_friendly_exit (strsignal (sig), sig);
                                   ^
/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_w64_20151116/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/sighandlers.cc:
In function 'void sigint_handler(int)':
/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe_w64_20151116/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/sighandlers.cc:537:52:
error: 'strsignal' was not declared in this scope
   w32_interrupt_manager::user_abort (strsignal (sig), sig);

On Linux (Magei-5 64-bit) Octave-4.1.0+ builds & works fine.

address@hidden dev]$ hg  summary
parent: 21191:8e317ce26a24 tip
 unconditionally define warn_qrupdate_once

Philip




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