[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#735557: transition: octave3.8

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2014-01-17 16:02]:

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> Recompilation of package octave-plplot failed.

This happens because the Octave binding for the PLplot library is built 
with SWIG and a change in file version.h introduced in 3.8.0 is 
preventing SWIG of working correctly.  The problem is described in this 
bug report against SWIG:

   http://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/1353/

A bug report against Octave has been filed in the Savannah tracker:

   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41045

and JWE commited a changeset for coping with the problem:

   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b6b6e0dc700e

This changeset does not really fixes the compilation of the plplot 
package, but would allow the SWIG developers to get around the lacking of 
OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER definition in version.h.

In sum, until the problem gets fixed in the swig package, the plplot 
package will FTBFS with octave 3.8.0.

Rafael