Bug#344995: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#344995: octave-forge: FTBFS (ia64, mips, .../unstable): fixed.h: No such file or directory

[folajimi]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:

> Package: octave-forge
> Version: 2005.06.13-4
> Severity: serious
>
> octave-forge is failing to build on multiple architectures because it's
> missing an include path while building in the fixed/examples directory:
>
> [...]
> make[4]: Entering directory /build/buildd/octave-forge-2005.06.13/main/fixed/examples'
> Depending ffft.cc
> rm -f ffft.d
> /usr/bin/g++ -M -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.72 -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.72/octave -O2 -I../ -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -DHAVE_RESIZE_AND_FILL ffft.cc | /bin/sed -e 's,^[^:]*/\(.*\.o\):,\1:,' -e 's,ffft\.o,pic/& & ffft.d,g' > ffft.d-t && mv ffft.d-t ffft.d
> Depending fixed_inc.cc
> rm -f fixed_inc.d
> /usr/bin/g++ -M -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.72 -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.72/octave -O2 -I../ -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -DHAVE_RESIZE_AND_FILL fixed_inc.cc | /bin/sed -e 's,^[^:]*/\(.*\.o\):,\1:,' -e 's,fixed_inc\.o,pic/& & fixed_inc.d,g' > fixed_inc.d-t && mv fixed_inc.d-t fixed_inc.d
> mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v -c ffft.cc
> /usr/bin/g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.72 -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.72/octave -O2 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 ffft.cc -o ffft.o
> In file included from ffft.cc:30:
> ffft.h:34:19: error: fixed.h: No such file or directory
> [...]
>
> A full build log can be found at
> <http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=octave-forge&arch=mips&ver=2005.06.13-4&stamp=1135763004&file=log>.
>
> The fixed.h file is in the parent main/fixed directory, not in
> main/fixed/examples; for whatever reason, the build is using the -I../
> argument correctly when recording the dependencies, but then proceeds to
> drop it for the actual build, resulting in the shown errors.
>
> There are also other errors shown in the build log; I don't understand why
> the build continues on after these other errors, but I assume at least that
> the final error, if not the *only* reason for the build failure, is at least
> *a* reason for the build failure.
>
> Because ginac is tied to the KDE ABI transition, and octave-forge depends on
> libginac1.3c2a, it would be appreciated if you could address this bug ASAP.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
> Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
> vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Colin and I had been working on
this trying to build the package for a few weeks now without much success. I
just thought we peons were doing something wrong...

JA