Bug#344995: [OctDev] Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#344995: octave-forge: FTBFS (ia64, mips, .../unstable): fixed.h: No such file or directory

[David Bateman]

Paul Kienzle wrote:

> This sounds familiar and may already be fixed in CVS, so hopefully it  
> is just a matter of releasing a new version.
>
> I think the hordes of octave-forge developers can manage this before  
> the new year.
>
> The steps are as usual:
>
> (1) post all outstanding changes to your packages
> (2) address outstanding bugs on the bug tracker
> (3) address outstanding bugs on the list, or add them to the bug tracker
> (4) purge functions which have made it into 2.1.72
> (5) test build on windows, os x, linux
>
> Please help out where you can.
>
> Also for all the octave-forge functions you are using, add some test  
> cases at the end if there are none there already so that we can 
> release  with more confidence.
>
> - Paul

Paul,

Can we delay a little bit. My reasoning is that I'd like the new 
autoload function in 2.9.x to be used by octave-forge if available to 
allow me to significantly reduce the size of my MinGW build by removing 
all of the symbolic links in octave-forge. The easiest way to do this 
would be to have "make install" diff all of the binary files in the 
directory being installed and see if they are the same and if so don't 
install it but add an autoload command to the PKG_ADD file.  You can't 
just check if it is a symbolic link, as they aren't under MinGW (which 
is the problem).

I'll try and write a script for this rapidly so that it doesn't hold up 
the release too much. As for purging functions, it is a little bit more 
complex than that, as most of the functions merged into octave from 
octave-forge went into 2.9.x release only, and so rather than purging 
these functions, they will need a conditional installation. I can attack 
some of these as well if someone doesn't get there first...

Cheers
David

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