[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] secs1d needs bim

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Rafael Laboissiere
<rafael at laboissiere.net> wrote:
> * c. <carlo.defalco at gmail.com> [2012-06-05 20:35]:
>
>> gmsh is actually just an optional dependency of msh which is needed
>> only by two functions which call it via a "system ()" call.
>>
>> If gmsh causes so much trouble I can just change those functions so
>> that they check whether a gmsh binary is available and give a warning
>> if it isn't.
>>
>> or, as an alternative, you could simply patch msh on debian removing
>> the two functions that require gmsh.
>
> Please, change the functions as you suggest above.  It is much better
> that the changes are done upstream instead of been done via
> Debian-specific patches.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rafael
>
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This may be off-topic:

I use gmsh in combination with the package msh. In UIbuntu when
installing gmsh a conflict with hdf5-serial is detected and one cannot
have hdf5-serial and gmsh in this way. However, compiling from gmsh
sources using hdf5-serial produces no problem.

Cheers,

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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