[Pkg-octave-devel] Patching octave-forge packages [was: Build of octave-fixed fails]

[Thomas Weber]

On 22/03/08 13:49 +0100, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:33:16AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > Does the octave-fixed package build for you?  For me, it fails with:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--out-implib=liboctave_fixed.dll.a'
> > /usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[1]: *** [liboctave_fixed.dll] Error 1
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Fails on my machine also, I have sent a mail to the forge list asking
> about this.

Yeah, we need to patch one of the octave-forge packages. 

I suggest we patch pkg.m to handle already extracted tarballs, makes
life easier for everyone.

Patch available at
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2008-March/006417.html
although I would have appreciated some comments.
(sorry Rafael, no Perl this time ... :)

	Thomas