Re: package database-2.4.0 released

[Olaf Till]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 02:54:12PM +0000, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> I acquired the package from sourceforge.

Where exactly from sourceforge? The official package at

https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/database-2.4.0.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=netix&download=

, or

from the Mercurial repository?

> I was building via an update
> of the FreeBSD port https://www.freshports.org/math/octave-forge-database/

I don't understand this.

> Based upon your reply, I edited Makefile.in as follows, which fixed the
> problem.  Is this legitimate?
> 
> --- Makefile.in.orig    2016-03-18 14:46:25 UTC
> +++ Makefile.in
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ MFILES := $(wildcard *.m) $(wildcard ../
> 
>  .INTERMEDIATE: MFDOCSTRINGS $(DSFILES)
> 
> -all: doc $(octs)
> +all: $(octs)
> 
>  release: doc html

I don't know yet. If you used the official package, has it been
somehow changed? Is doc/database.info still in it? Maybe the
timestamps are wrong so that it is rebuilt? Could you paste the output
of 'ls -l doc/ inst/ src/' (before building)?

Apart from the question why it is rebuild, I'd also like to know why
rebuilding goes wrong. Can you insert this in 'munge-texi.pl':

--- database/src/munge-texi.pl  2016-03-09 07:14:16.461738357 +0100
+++ tp/database-2.4.0/src/munge-texi.pl 2016-03-18 10:13:13.450932703 +0100
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 {
   open (DOCFH, $DOCSTRING_file) or die "Unable to open $DOCSTRING_file\n";
 
+  warn "$DOCSTRING_file\n";
+
   # Skip comments
   while (defined ($_ = <DOCFH>) and /$comment_line/o) {;}

and build, and paste the output, so that I see in which file it fails?
If it is 'MFDOCSTRINGS', you can send me this also (better
off-list). If it's another one, I'll have further questions ...

Olaf

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