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

[Jonathan Blanchard]

Yes it did clear the problem. I wrote a page in the wiki about
compiling Scilab under Solaris and Gcc, you might want to take a look
as I might have complicated things a bit. Anyways thanks for all the
info.

Jonathan Blanchard



On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Sylvestre Ledru
<sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 21:36 -0300, Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
>> I get this warning message when starting scilab from a command line.
>>
>> ~/local/scilab/bin$ Warning: Localization issue: Error while binding
>> the domain from /export/home/jo/local/scilab/share/scilab//../locale/
>> or /export/home/jo/local/scilab/share/scilab//locale/: Switch to the
>> default language (English).
> Try:
> --enable-build-localization
>
> It should work better.
>
>
>> So is it normal that VPATH build does not work or is it just me and/or Solaris?
> It is normal.
> I have been working on this lately. You can now build Scilab it self
> (dyn library + scilab-bin binary). However, it still requires some work
> to be able to build macros + doc this way. But it should be pretty fast
> to fix.
> Revision: 27636
> http://viewvc.scilab.org/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi?limit_changes=100&view=rev&revision=27636
> configure.ac & */*/Makefile.am are the interesting files.
>
> Thanks again for point this out!
>
> Sylvestre
>
>
>
>>
>> Jonathan Blanchard
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
>> <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> wrote:
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
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