[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#344995: Solution

[Joaquim Ortega]

I believe that I have identified the bug. It is related to the new behaviour 
of make documented as
 * All pattern-specific variables that match a given target are now used
    (previously only the first match was used).
What happens now is that in the file main/Makeconf.in and  main/Makeconf.base 
there is a pattern

%.o: %.cc ; $(MKOCTFILE) -c $<

that matches the cc files and overrules the corresponding pattern in the 
Makefiles of the subdirectories (that pass some extra parameters for 
instance). The file main/Makeconf is sourced from the Makefiles of the 
directories. I suggest as a workaround to delete the offending line in 
 main/Makeconf.in and main/Makeconf.base. Moreover there are a couple of 
Makefiles in two subdirectories, namely extra/linear-algebra and main/splines
where this line must be readded because they don't have one of their own, they 
relied on the pattern from main/Makeconf that we just deleted. With this 
three-line fix the package built fine.
Best regards,
Quim