[Pkg-octave-devel] /usr/bin/mex and texlive

[Paul Kienzle]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2006-09-28 12:13]:
>
>> there's a discussion on debian-release regarding tetex and texlive.
>>
>> The package texlive-lang-polish has an (outdated) conflict against 
>> octave-forge, because it ships with a /usr/bin/mex file (a symlink to 
>> pdfetex).
>>
>> The current octave2.1-forge package has /usr/bin/mex2.1, 
>> octave2.9-forge hasn't any mex-binaries in /usr/bin/; the current 
>> octave-forge CVS is a little bit chaotic due to the move to packages, 
>> but it seems that the mex/ directory is gone for good.
>>
>> So I guess it boils down to wether we are okay with handing 
>> /usr/bin/mex to another package?
>
> It seems that the mex program is obsolete and mkoctfile in octave2.9 
> handles mex files directly.  I would then handle it to 
> texlive-lang-polish and drop the /usr/bin/mex alternative.  Before 
> going ahead, I would like to hear from the upstream authors of 
> octave-forge whether this is appropriate (Cc:ing this message to Paul 
> Kienzle, although I think he lurks this mailing list).

Handing /usr/bin/mex to another package is appropriate.

mex is gone from octave2.9-forge and won't pop up in octave since it is 
an m-file there.

The command line form of mex in octave2.9 is "mkoctfile -mex".

	- Paul