[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#744244: octave: missing function "dispatch" causes configure to fail

[Mike Miller]

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 20:23:33 +0200, Winfried Boxleitner wrote:
>>> error: 'dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
>>> error: called from:
>>> error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/fixed-0.7.10/PKG_ADD at line 2, column 1
> [...]
> so it seems that "dispatch" was removed deliberately, however the
> install/upgrade process depends on it.

Actually the octave-fixed package has been removed from the Debian
archive because it is unmaintained and no longer works with current
Octave. And octave 3.8.1-1 should have forced a removal of the
octave-fixed package if it were installed. How do you have it
installed in /usr/share/octave/packages/fixed-0.7.10?

> to workaround this and to finally finish the upgrade I searched
> for "dispatch.oct" in an older deb-package and copied it into:
> /usr/lib/octave/3.2.4/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dispatch.oct
> [...]
> the install finished successfully, however other error messages appear whenever I try
> to start octave, since I introduced library inconsistencies by using an ancient version
> of "dispatch.oct"

The correct resolution should be removal of the fixed package, whether
it was installed locally by you or from the octave-fixed Debian
package. Depending on your answer to the above, does removal of the
package (and removal of this dispatch.oct file) fix the configuration
error for you?

-- 
mike