[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: Bug#637787: trivial fix

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Oct-2011, Thomas Weber wrote:

| On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
| > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:24:17PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > > If you don't want to change octlibdir, then you can change the lines
| > > like
| > > 
| > >   octlib_LTLIBRARIES = liboctave.la
| > > 
| > > in the Makefile.am files to be
| > > 
| > >   lib_LTLIBRARIES = liboctave.la
| > > 
| > > instead.  It's the octlib (or lib) prefix that is used to generate the
| > > variable that determines the installation directory. 
| 
| I did the change above, but the build fails almost always (almost = in a
| clean chroot). It builds reliable in my normal work directory, which is
| strange (I already looked at timestamp issues, but I do not think that
| that is the problem). It always fails when linking in libcruft/ with the
| error message:
| 
| libtool: link: cannot find the library `libranlib.la' or unhandled
| argument `libranlib.la'
| 
| I've put a log file of the build at
| http://people.debian.org/~tweber/octave.log.bz2
| 
| The commands effectively run are:
| 	automake --foreign --verbose
| 	./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
| 	make -j1
| 
| Do you have any ideas?

I can't reproduce the problem, but I'm not sure I'm doing exactly the
same thing as you.

Can you please give me step-by-step instructions for how to download
exactly the Debian package files and what to do with them to try to
generate the package?  Jordi gave me that info a few days ago and with
what he showed me, I was able to generate the error you mention
above.  But now I can't find his instructions.

jwe