Patch to src/Makefile.in for GPERF
John W. Eaton
jwe at octave.org
Fri Feb 6 11:53:32 CST 2009
On 5-Feb-2009, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
| Here is a patch. I tested it with and without gperf. Then, removed
| oct-gperf.h and did another build. Seems Ok. I don't know about
| systems other than Linux with sh. If there is a gperf before the real
| one in the path, a simple test will fail. For example, a shell script
| named gperf, containing
| #! /bin/sh
| exit 0
|
| To get around this, I used grep. I added AC_PROG_GREP to configure.in
| and, added GREP to Makeconf.in.
|
|
| 2009-02-05 Thomas D. Dean <tomdean at speakeasy.org>
|
| * configure.in Added AC_PROG_GREP to require grep
| * Makeconf.in Added definition of GREP
| * src/Makefile.in Added test for executable gperf in making
| oct-gperf.h using GREP
What is the check for grep needed for? I don't see GREP used anywhere
in the Octave Makefiles.
I checked in the following change instead for the gperf problem.
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6e0d425862fa
jwe
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