Re: mkoctfile urgently needs attention before Octave 3.6.0

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On 29 Dec 2011, at 22:08, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> I was wondering if that was it. A while ago, I tried to fix mkoctfile
> to pass more options to the compiler and linker correctly with -Wl and
> -Wa, but I ended up breaking almost all Octave-Forge packages. A
> suggested alternative was to simply pass any unrecognised mkoctfile
> options to the compiler and/or linker.
> 
> I have a half-written patch back when I tried to do the latter. This
> isn't at all working, but it may be the right direction to take.

I was trying a different path, i.e. let configure set BLAS_LIBS to 
"-Wl,-framework -Wl,vecLib" which is understood by mkoctfile, 
rather than "-framework vecLib" that isn't.

This requires modifying configure.ac and m4/ax_blas, would that be OK?

> - Jordi G. H.
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