Re: [mxe] stable build from source

Am Di., 14. Juli 2020 um 22:41 Uhr schrieb John W. Eaton <[email protected]>:

> On 7/14/20 3:47 PM, Stefan Pofahl wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to download the snapshots of octave-stable somewhere?
>
> No, you have to build them from the hg sources.  If you are building all
> of Octave and its dependencies, that's not much more work to do and
> there is a target in the mxe-octave Makefile to do it.
>
> jwe
>


I am still lost, maybe I misunderstood something.
First I had to install: "PCRE library" (on ubuntu 20.04: "pcre2-utils")
because of this message:
configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and
header files installed

After "./bootstrap" I stayed inside the root-dir of the repository clone
(for me: '~/hg/mxe-octave')
and gave the command:

nice -n 19 make all 7z-dist JOBS=8 hg-octave-dist hg-octave-branch=stable

The result was:
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[...]
[build]    stable-octave

Failed to build package stable-octave!
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make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave“ wird betreten
rm -rf   '/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/tmp-stable-octave'
'/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/tmp-stable-octave-install'
mkdir -p '/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/tmp-stable-octave'
( cd '/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/tmp-stable-octave' &&    tar xaf
'/home/spofahl/builds/octave_pkg/octave-6.0.1.tar.lz' ) ||  false
tar: /home/spofahl/builds/octave_pkg/octave-6.0.1.tar.lz: Funktion open
fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
make[2]: *** [/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/Makefile:939:
build-only-stable-octave] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave“ wird verlassen
real    0m1.929s
user    0m1.707s
sys     0m0.302s
------------------------------------------------------------
[log]      /home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/log/stable-octave

make[1]: *** [Makefile:942:
/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/installed-packages/stable-octave] error 1
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave“ wird verlassen
make: *** [Makefile:621: all] error 2
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I thought that this command "nice -n 19 ... hg-octave-dist
hg-octave-branch=stable" takes care of the necessary
steps.
Do I need to modify this command? And if so, what would be an example of an
tailored command?

The command:
make dist
results in a file: "mxe-octave-a65cacd05892.tar.gz"
Does it make sense to copy this into the pkg-dir?

cp ./mxe-octave-a65cacd05892.tar.gz ~/builds/octave_pkg/octave-6.0.1.tar.lz

Regards,

Stefan