Bug#344995: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#344995: Solution

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* folajimi <folajimi at speakeasy.net> [2005-12-29 14:20]:

> Did you ever hear back from the upstream developers regarding our build
> issues?

Paul Kienzle and David Bateman, both upstream developers of octave-forge,
participated to the current thread, but they do not really address the
specific problems we have faced.  At any rate, it seems that the bug
comes from the new version of GNU make, which has a new way to process
the precedence of multiple defined rules.  The package should build fine
now.

The package was autobuilt successfully last night on mips, arm, hppa, and
mipsel.  It fails for ia64, s390, and powerpc with the following error
message:

    octave-depends
    Command octave-config not found at /usr/bin/octave-depends line 49.
    make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2

However, this is an unrelated problem.

I will prepare a better patch than that included in version 2005.06.13-5
and will propose it to the upstream authors.

-- 
Rafael