[Pkg-octave-devel] Adding an Octave-dependent software into Debian

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Feb-2009, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

| As I told you, my current packaging builds MEX files for Matlab. This  
| is not desirable nor feasible for an official Debian package, because  
| of Matlab's license and also because autobuilding of the MEX files  
| requires Matlab, which is not an option for Debian buildd.

Is there not a distribution of Dynare that contains only sources and
no pre-built MEX files or other libraries?  If not, then why not
create one?

You can also build MEX files for Octave, thought the native .oct files
are generally more efficient.

jwe