[Scilab-Dev] Re: Scilab compilation cannot find header files.

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 12:42 -0300, Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
> Finally, I successfully built Scilab for Solaris. Thanks to the help I
> received from this mailing list.
Thanks for your input !

> So here are a the few problems I ran into and the workaround I used.
> 
> First of all and most importantly I figured that VPATH build does not
> work so it is imperative the scilab is configured and built inside
> it's source directory. I think this should be added to the compilation
> instructions.
Or I can make VPATH build works! ( and I probably should do that...)
I will have a look on this.

> Next building without tk does not seem to work as make complain that
> rules are missing for some targets.
Well, I think it is a broken feature :$ I have to see why.


> Finally I ran into some make problem when it complained that targets
> rules where missing for some pdfs files in the differential equations
> demos. I just deleted them from the makefile.am and ran autoreconf.
> This issue seem to be fixed in TRUNK now I think.
Very bad luck for you. That means that you checkouted the trunk between
the removal of these files and the update of the Makefile.am

> So now Scilab is working including it's gui on x86 but it still
> complain a bit at start up about localization but everything else look
> fine.
What is your error ?

> I think I or someone else if anyone is interested should update the
> wiki about building Scilab for Solaris.
I am really interested!
This would be very helpfull.

I started these pages:
http://wiki.scilab.org/Scilab_on_Solaris_10
http://wiki.scilab.org/Sun_Solaris_howtos

Sylvestre