development version does not compile

[Bertrand Roessli]

broessli at broessli-laptop:~$ gnuplot --version
gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 4 
broessli at broessli-laptop:~$ 

I do not think I have regexp installed


  Source directory:     .
  Installation prefix:  /usr/local
  C compiler:           gcc  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2
  C++ compiler:         g++  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow
-Wold-style-cast -g -O2
  Fortran compiler:     gfortran -O -mieee-fp
  Fortran libraries:     -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2
-L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib
-L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../.. -lz
-lgfortranbegin -lgfortran -lm
  BLAS libraries:       -llapack -lblas
  FFTW libraries:       -lfftw3 -lfftw3f
  GLPK libraries:       -lglpk
  UMFPACK libraries:    -lumfpack
  AMD libraries:        -lamd
  CAMD libraries:       -lcamd
  COLAMD libraries:     -lcolamd
  CCOLAMD libraries:    -lccolamd
  CHOLMOD libraries:    -lcholmod
  CXSPARSE libraries:   -lcxsparse
  ARPACK libraries:     
  QRUPDATE libraries:	
  HDF5 libraries:       
  CURL libraries:       
  REGEX libraries:      
  QHULL libraries:	
  OPENGL libraries:     
  FLTK backend libs:    
  X11 include flags:    
  X11 libraries:        -lX11
  LIBS:                 -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lblas -lz -lm 
  Default pager:        less
  gnuplot:              gnuplot
  Magick config:        


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:59 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 13-Feb-2009, Bertrand Roessli wrote:
> 
> | I had 4.2.3 and installed 4.2.4, but got the same error. 
> | I commented out the lines in the m-file and everything compiled
> | smoothly.
> 
> OK, so if you are using 4.2.4, then you should be seeing
> 
>   4.2 patchlevel 4
> 
> as the output from the shell command "gnuplot --version", correct?
> 
> If so, then I think we've determined that the problem is that the PCRE
> library handles the regexp in __gnuplot_version__ correctly, but other
> regexp libraries do not.
> 
> Do you have the PCRE regexp library installed?  Did configure find it?
> 
> Maybe we should change __gnuplot_version__ do the version extraction
> without regexp, to avoid this problem.  Additionally, perhaps we
> should require PCRE for regexps, so that there is some consistency in
> the behavior of Octave's regexp functions.
> 
> jwe