Re: GNU Octave 3.6.4 Released

[Sergei Steshenko]

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I have tried to build octave-3.6.4, and it itself builds fine, 'make check' 
passes.

However, I also build and install all the available packages (build of some of 
them fails, and it's OK).

So, with octave-3.6.2 I was able to build IIRC 75 packages - I may be off, by, 
say 5 packages.

But with octave-3.6.4 I am able to build only 31 packages.

I also have my own version of 'pkg.m' - which theoretically may be the problem, 
though it works fine for me with octave-3.6.2.

Looking into my 'struct-1.0.10.tar.gz.install.log' file I see:

"
'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory 
`/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/build/octave_forge_bundle/oct-dTXdMS/struct-1.0.10/src'
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.4/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 -s 
fields2cell.cc
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.4/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4: line 
513: fg: no job control
make: *** [fields2cell.oct] Error 1
",

and in /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.4/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 
the context is:

"
    510       objfiles="$objfiles $o"
    511       cmd="$CXX -c $CPPFLAGS $CXXPICFLAG $ALL_CXXFLAGS $pass_on_options 
$incflags $defs $f -o $o"
    512       $dbg $cmd
    513       eval $cmd
    514     else
    515       echo "mkoctfile: no way to compile C++ file $f" 1>&2
    516     fi
    517   done
".

So, do I understand correctly that

    513       eval $cmd

is at fault ?

The same error message in 'strings-1.1.0.tar.gz.install.log' :

"
'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory 
`/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/build/octave_forge_bundle/oct-duYIDv/strings/src'
mkoctfile -Wall pcregexp.cc
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.4/bin/mkoctfile: line 513: fg: 
no job control
".

...

Doing diff 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.2/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.2 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.4/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 I see 
among other things:

"
< : ${F77="gfortran"}
---
> : ${F77=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_F77%}
73c73
< : ${CC="gcc"}
---
> : ${CC=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_CC%}
76c76
< : ${CXX="g++"}
---
> : ${CXX=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_CXX%}
80c80,83
< : ${XTRA_CXXFLAGS="-mieee-fp 
-I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/pcre-8.31/include 
-I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/freetype-2.4.10/include/freetype2 
-I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/freetype-2.4.10/include 
-I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/fontconfig-2.10.1/include  "}
---
> : ${XTRA_CXXFLAGS="-mieee-fp 
> -I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/pcre-8.31/include 
> -I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/freetype-2.4.10/include/freetype2 
> -I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/freetype-2.4.10/include   
> -I/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/fontconfig-2.10.1/include  "}
>
> : ${AR=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_AR%}
> : ${RANLIB=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_RANLIB%}
85c88
< : ${DL_LD="g++"}
---
> : ${DL_LD=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_DL_LD%}
105c108
< : ${LD_CXX="g++"}
---
> : ${LD_CXX=%OCTAVE_CONF_MKOCTFILE_LD_CXX%}
".

Aren't all those items with '%' supposed to be replaced with actual values 
during 'configure' run ?

Has anybody tried to build all the packages ?

If yes, what are the results ?


Regards,
  Sergei.