[Pkg-octave-devel] Updating the OF package for Octave 4.0

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Those who are subscribed to pkg-octave-commit have probably seen many 
commits that I did recently.  Most of them regard adaptation of the OF 
packages to Octave 4.0.  The majority of packages are now in good shape, 
but some of them still have problems:

octave-nurbs: one of the unit tests fails, but this does not seem 
critical.

octave-mpi: The package works correctly, but the helloworld example 
makes Octave segfault.

octave-msh: The packages builds correctly, but the unit tests that 
depend on libdolfin fail.  I tried to build the package against libdolfin 
1.4, with no sucess.

octave-dataframe: The single unit test fails and I suspect that there 
are incompatibilities with Octave 4.0.

In commit 231a2c2, I added libsndfile1-dev and portaudio19-dev to the 
Build-Depends list of octave.  With this changes, the audio support 
functions are now fully functional.  Besides that, this is necessary for 
having the octave-ltfat building correctly.

We still have to check the non-OF packages, but I think that we will be 
ready to start the 3.8->4.0 transition as soon as the new octave package 
comes out from the NEW queue.

Best,

Rafael