[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#756689: octave: [hdf5 transition] please support hdf5 1.8.13 new packaging layout

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 11 août 2014 à 10:56 +0200, Gilles Filippini a écrit :
> Gilles Filippini a écrit , Le 10/08/2014 10:37:
> > Gilles Filippini a écrit , Le 09/08/2014 17:57:
> >> Mike Miller a écrit , Le 08/08/2014 16:22:
> >>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 08:03:14 +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for that. In the mean time is it possible for you to upload a
> >>>> fixed octave package to unstable to ease the transition?
> >>>
> >>> I think one of us will get to uploading a fixed octave package soon,
> >>> there are other pending changes in git, and we don't want to hold up
> >>> the transition.
> >>>
> >>> I haven't tested building octave rdeps with these patches, but I
> >>> assume that's the reason for hdf5-mkoctfile.patch right?. I'm curious
> >>> if the change to LDFLAGS is really necessary in the general case, or
> >>> is it only there for the one or two packages that intentionally link
> >>> to hdf5 themselves? I would think only the include path would be
> >>> required for almost all uses of mkoctfile, in which case it could look
> >>> more like mkoctfile-mpi.diff (which I think we can actually drop once
> >>> the hdf5 transition is done).
> >>
> >> Thanks for this feedback. I think you're right because I've had to set
> >> CPPFLAGS only to build octave rdeps against an unpatched octave. I'll
> >> test this ASAP and tell you.
> > 
> > You were right. I've have to update hdf5-mkoctfile.patch to use INCFLAGS
> > instead of CPPFLAGS because the latter is superseded by existing
> > CPPFLAGS environment variable.
> > 
> > Please find attached an updated version of hdf5-mkoctfile.patch. I've
> > tested it against the build of dynare which is a rdep of liboctave-dev.
> 
> Updated debdiff attached.
> 
> I'd appreciate if you could upload these fixes very soon: octave is now
> the last package in the way of the transition. The others are to hit
> unstable by tomorrow.
> 
> If you prefer I upload an NMU please tell me.

Thanks for taking care of this transition.

I will upload the patch, but ideally I would like it to wait for the
next upstream release. The 3.8.2 release should come very soon, since it
is already tagged in upstream VCS. Whatever happens, I commit to
uploading your patch before the end of the week.

Best,	

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