[Pkg-octave-devel] Problem with
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Wed Sep 17 21:11:53 UTC 2014
I just noticed that, on i386, the canonical_host_type in Octave 3.8.2 has
changed:
octave:1> octave_config_info ("canonical_host_type")
ans = i586-pc-linux-gnu
This is preventing many OctaveForge packages that currently have *.oct
files installed under "i486" of working correctly, since the i486-named
directories do not get included in the path. For instance:
$ ls -d /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/*/i486*
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/control-2.6.5/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/geometry-1.7.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/general-1.3.4/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/odepkg-0.8.4/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/signal-1.3.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
Of course, those packages are now buggy on i386. What can be done in
order to fix this problem?
Rafael
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