[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#493417: Bug#493417: octave-tsa: FTBFS: `sumskipnan' undefined

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:32:54AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Package: octave-tsa
> Version: 3.10.6-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> >From my pbuilder build log:
> 
> ...
> octave3.0 --no-history --silent --no-init-file --eval                   \       
>                 "addpath ('/usr/share/octave/debian/m', '-begin');             \
>                  pkg ('prefix', [pwd(),'/debian/octave-tsa/usr/share/octave/packages'], \                                                                       
>                       [pwd(),'/debian/octave-tsa/usr/lib/octave/packages']);   \
>                  pkg ('local_list', [pwd(),'.']);               \               
>                  pkg ('global_list', [pwd(),'.']);              \               
>                  if (glob ('PKG_ADD.bak')),                     \               
>                      movefile ('PKG_ADD.bak', 'PKG_ADD');       \               
>                  endif;                                         \               
>                  pkg -verbose -nodeps install ."                                
> /usr/share/octave/debian/dh/octave-pkg-helper                                   
> dh_install --package=octave-tsa                                                 
> ( cd  ./debian/octave-tsa/usr/share/octave/packages/tsa-3.10.6/packinfo ; rm -f COPYING ChangeLog )                                                             
> if [ -d doc ] ; then                            \                               
>                 dh_installdocs -poctave-tsa doc/*;      \                       
>                 rm -rf debian/octave-tsa/usr/share/octave/packages/*/doc ;     \
>         fi                                                                      
> [ -e PKG_ADD ] && mv PKG_ADD PKG_ADD.bak                                        
> make: [check-pkg] Error 1 (ignored)                                             
> Checking package...
> warning: load: file found in load path
> Warning INVEST1: DIFF-based optimization not possible
> error: `sumskipnan' undefined near line 49 column 6
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 49, column 4
> error: called from `invest0' in file `/tmp/buildd/octave-tsa-3.10.6/debian/octave-
> tsa/usr/share/octave/packages/tsa-3.10.6/invest0.m'
> error: called from `invest1' in file `/tmp/buildd/octave-tsa-3.10.6/debian/octave-
> tsa/usr/share/octave/packages/tsa-3.10.6/invest1.m'
> error: near line 30 of file `/tmp/buildd/octave-tsa-3.10.6/debian/octave-
> tsa/usr/share/octave/packages/tsa-3.10.6/tsademo.m'
> error: near line 16 of file `debian/check.m'
> error: source: error sourcing file `debian/check.m'
> make: *** [check-pkg] Error 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status2
> -- 

This works fine for me on an i386 machine with a sid pbuilder.

The error that you are getting implies that the octave-nan package is
not getting installed (the octave-tsa build depends on this package).
Why that is I don't know. Please supply the whole build log.

Oli