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

[Winfried Boxleitner]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Mike Miller wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
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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
>

thank you mike!
the removal of octave-fixed solves the problem for me.

to test I did a reinstall of octave and it went through without a problem.

reg
winfried