[Pkg-octave-devel] Packages with PKG_ADD fial to build

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:33:38AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-03-29 02:05]:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:51:25PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > I have already asked this in octave-dev, but got no reply.  Asking again here:
> > > 
> > > I cannot build correctly packages having PKG_ADD files at the top dir.  For
> > > instance, octave-combinatorics fails with the following error message:
> > > 
> > > octave3.0 -f -H -q --no-site-file --eval                   \
> > >         "addpath ('/usr/share/octave/debian/m', '-begin'); \
> > >          pkg ('prefix', [pwd(),'/debian/octave-combinatorics/usr/share/octave/packages'],       \
> > >               [pwd(),'/debian/octave-combinatorics/usr/lib/octave/packages']);          \
> > >          pkg ('local_list', [pwd(),'.']);               \
> > >          pkg ('global_list', [pwd(),'.']);              \
> > >          pkg -verbose -nodeps install ."
> > > error: `fullfile' undefined near line 1 column 22
> > > error: evaluating argument list element number 2
> > > error: near line 1 of file `./PKG_ADD'
> > > error: source: error sourcing file `./PKG_ADD'
> > 
> > Executing this command in the shell (not using the debian build
> > system) works fine on my computer. Using Octave Version: 1:3.0.0-5
> > 
> > So I cant imagine what is wrong here.
> 
> Are you sure you are launching the command above from the unpacked directory
> were there is a PKG_ADD file?  From the unpacked octave-combinatorics
> directory, with the debian stuff added, I get:

Ahh, the unpacked dir .. nope, I wasnt doing that.

I get the same error as you when I try that.


Oli