[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 4.2 for stretch

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2016-07-02 13:41]:

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 14:02:02 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>> 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).
>
> Until gcc-defaults is changed to point to gcc-6, you would need to build 
> with CC=gcc-6 CXX=g++-6 F77=gfortran-6.
>
> The upstream hg repo now builds against HDF5 1.10, I have successfully 
> built it against both gcc-6/unstable and hdf5/experimental.
>
> FTR, building against GCC 6 is expected to work with rev aab79a1885cc or 
> later, and against HDF5 1.10 with rev 5c949eecb6dd or later.

Great.  I am preparing now the release of version 4.0.3 to unstable. 
After it is done, I will release a version for experimental based on the 
Mercurial sources.

Rafael