[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 4.2 for stretch

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le vendredi 01 juillet 2016 à 12:12 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2016-07-01 12:03]:
> 
> > Le vendredi 01 juillet 2016 à 01:26 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> >> * Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2016-06-29 09:33]:
> >
> >> The libhdf5-dev package has version 1.10.0-patch1+docs-1~exp in 
> >> experimental while, in unstable, it has version 1.8.16+docs-8. Something 
> >> changed between these versions that make Octave FTBFS.
> >
> > Maybe am I missing something, but I don't understand why the hdf5 
> > version in experimental might be a problem. If we upload octave to 
> > experimental, it will be built against the version of hdf5 in *unstable* 
> > (unless we explicitly require the version in experimental by tightening 
> > the build dependency).
> 
> The goal to upload the octave package to experimental was to get it 
> built against gcc 6.  If, indeed as you say, it will be built against 
> the gcc in unstable, then the exercise is moot.

By default it will indeed be built against gcc-5. But it may be possible
to force building against gcc-6 using the right build dependencies (I
don't know if a B-D is enough, or if you also need to tweak things like
setting CC=gcc-6).

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