[Pkg-octave-devel] Problem with

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mercredi 17 septembre 2014 à 23:11 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a
écrit :
> 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+

Thanks for noticing this. I think this is due to the following change:

gcc-4.9 (4.9-20140411-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * GCC 4.9.0 release candidate 1.
  * Configure for i586-linux-gnu on i386.

 -- Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>  Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:57:07 +0200

The first version of octave that has been impacted by this change is
3.8.2-1, according to the build logs on i386.

> Of course, those packages are now buggy on i386.  What can be done in 
> order to fix this problem?

I think we simply need to identify the packages that are buggy, and ask
the Release Team for a binNMU of these (only on i386).

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