[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 4.2 for stretch

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2016-07-05 14:27]:

> Unfortunately the builds are all failing because of a missing dependency 
> on bison. In the source tarball that you imported, I see the following:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1  3719 Jun 30 09:35 octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/oct-tex-parser.h 
> -rw-r--r-- 1  7815 Jul  1 18:40 octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/oct-tex-parser.in.yy 
> -rw-r--r-- 1  7830 Jul  1 19:03 octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/oct-tex-parser.yy 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 60045 Jul  1 19:03 octave-4.1.0+/libinterp/corefcn/oct-tex-parser.cc
>
> In other words, this generated .h file is out of date compared to the 
> corresponding .in.yy file. You may have built the source tarball in a 
> directory where you had a partial build before updating from hg.
>
> The best way to build the source tarball from hg is to first update, and 
> run configure and make dist in a completely clean build directory. This 
> avoids the presence of any old generated files whose contents may have 
> not changed, and therefore seem to be eternally out of date to make.

Thanks for the heads up.  I will be more careful when generating the 
tarball from the Mercurial source next time.

For now, I "fixed" the problem by touching files oct-parse.h and 
oct-tex-parser.h in debian/rules.

I uploaded version 4.1.0~hg.20160703.22033-2, which builds fine in 
almost all architectures [*].  Curiously it is failing for i386.

The next step will be to force Build-Depends on gcc-6.  Does anyone know 
how to do this properly?

Rafael

[*] 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=octave&suite=experimental