[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: octave-forge FTBFS on hppa

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:11:49AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> The ginac package is tied to the KDE ABI transition, and octave-forge
> depends on libginac1.3c2a.  The octave-forge package will not be able to
> enter testing because it is waiting for octave2.1 to build on hppa.
> However, octave2.1 FTBFS on hppa because gnuplot is not available.
> Looking at the gnuplot buildd log I see that the failure is to to
> problems in configuring the following packages: tetex-base, tetex-bin,
> tetex-extra, and texinfo.  

> Are there chances to get this mess fixed any soon?

Yes.  gnuplot has now been built (and installed) on both alpha and hppa,
octave2.1 has already built on hppa and is being built now on alpha, so
we're supposedly just one more build admin cycle away from having
octave-forge built on all release archs.

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