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

[Winfried Boxleitner]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 21:45:11 +0200, Winfried Boxleitner wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Mike Miller wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>
> That's great that it's solved for you. It might still be useful to us
> to know how octave-fixed was installed on your system. Did you have a
> Debian package installed that you now apt-get removed, or had you
> locally installed it with the pkg command in Octave? If it was a deb
> package, what was its version?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> mike
>

octave-fixed appeared on my machine the first time 2012-05-16 21:22:41
in version: 0.7.10-5.
since then the version was never upgraded. the logs indicate,
that it was installed from a debian-package (entry in dpkg.log)

reg
winfried