[Pkg-octave-devel] mkoctfile not installed in Wheezy

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2012-12-01 18:31]:

> Juan Pablo Carbajal <ajuanpi+dev at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>>> On 30 November 2012 10:40, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk at bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/30/2012 9:32 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 30 November 2012 09:16, JuanPi <ajuanpi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am testing octave in Wheezy and after installing from the pkg 
>>>>>>>> manager mkoctfile is not in my system.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's in the liboctave-dev package. Normally mkoctfile shouldn't be 
>>>>>>> necessary unless you're doing, well, -dev things.
>
>>>>>> Is "pkg install" a "-dev" thing?
>
> Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/octave/README.Debian: it explains 
> why mkoctfile is in the -dev package.

In the thread in help-octave, Juan Pablo pointed out that the command 
"mkoctfile" fails when liboctave-dev is not installed.  I think that 
/usr/share/octave/<version>/m/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m should be moved 
from octave-common into liboctave-dev, at least for now.

Rafael