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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> * 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.

Or maybe better, we could patch it so that it tells to install
liboctave-dev if /usr/bin/mkoctfile is not found. What do you think?

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