[Pkg-octave-devel] Packages with PKG_ADD fial to build

Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojsbug at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 01:05:36 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:51:25PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I have already asked this in octave-dev, but got no reply.  Asking again here:
> 
> I cannot build correctly packages having PKG_ADD files at the top dir.  For
> instance, octave-combinatorics fails with the following error message:
> 
> octave3.0 -f -H -q --no-site-file --eval                   \
>         "addpath ('/usr/share/octave/debian/m', '-begin'); \
>          pkg ('prefix', [pwd(),'/debian/octave-combinatorics/usr/share/octave/packages'],       \
>               [pwd(),'/debian/octave-combinatorics/usr/lib/octave/packages']);          \
>          pkg ('local_list', [pwd(),'.']);               \
>          pkg ('global_list', [pwd(),'.']);              \
>          pkg -verbose -nodeps install ."
> error: `fullfile' undefined near line 1 column 22
> error: evaluating argument list element number 2
> error: near line 1 of file `./PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file `./PKG_ADD'

Executing this command in the shell (not using the debian build
system) works fine on my computer. Using Octave Version: 1:3.0.0-5

So I cant imagine what is wrong here.

Oli



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