[Pkg-octave-devel] Octplot doesn't migrate to testing

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-12-18 09:46]:

> octplot ftbfs on three architectucres (alpha, powerpc, sparc) with the
> following error:
>         
> checking for OpenGL support in fltk... yes
> /build/buildd/octplot-0.4.0/./configure: line 5429: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBS="$LIBS $GLU_LIBS"'
> /build/buildd/octplot-0.4.0/./configure: line 5429: `LIBS="$LIBS $GLU_LIBS"'
>         
> We/I patched this in, so if it's an error, it's certainly ours. However,
> the package builds fine on the other architectures, so I'm unsure how to
> proceed. 
>         
> Suggestions?

What about instead of patching configure, Makefile.in, etc. in
50_link_with_glu.patch, why not just patch configure.ac and let
autoconf/automake generate the necessary files for us?

-- 
Rafael