[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#477736: octave-symbolic_1.0.5-1(sparc/unstable): missing dependencies

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 10:13:21 UTC 2008


Am Montag, den 28.04.2008, 11:14 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> Am Freitag, den 25.04.2008, 00:15 +0200 schrieb Martin Zobel-Helas:
> > Package: octave-symbolic
> > Version: 1.0.5-1
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
> > 
> > > Automatic build of octave-symbolic_1.0.5-1 on lebrun by sbuild/sparc 98
> > > Build started at 20080421-2120
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > ** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
> > > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), cdbs, octave-pkg-dev (>= 0.5.5), libginac-dev
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > octave-forge is configured with
> > >    octave:      octave (version 3.0.0)
> > >    mkoctfile:	mkoctfile for Octave 0
> > >    symbolic toolbox: GiNaC not found --- see main/symbolic/INSTALL
> > > 
> > > find . -name NOINSTALL -print    # shows which toolboxes won't be installed
> > > 
> > > make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> > > error: 'make' returned the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/octave-symbolic-1.0.5/src'
> > > Ginac library or headers not found
> 
> Ginac now uses pkg-config to check for its library. Should we add this
> as a general dependency to octave-pkg-dev or the specific packages that
> need it (I don't know which packages these are, though)?

I went ahead and added pkg-config as a dependency to octave-pkg-dev. We
can revert the change later, but for now I want to get those bugs fixed.

	Thomas




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