[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#560335: Bug#560335: octave-octgpr: FTBFS: error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file /usr/share/octave/3.0.5/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1235, column 2

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

2009/12/11 Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 06:58:22AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2009/12/11 Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>:
>> >> We need patch revising this.
>> >> I added patch to revising these. Package building was fine.
>> >> Please apply  patch.
>> >
>> >> --- a/gawk-3.1.6.dfsg/debian/rules    2009-07-08 15:38:42.000000000 +0900
>> >> +++ b/gawk-3.1.6.dfsg/debian/rules    2009-07-08 15:39:13.000000000 +0900
>> >> @@ -24,11 +24,18 @@
>> >>  install_script       := install -m 755
>> >
>> > Maybe I'm missing something, but your patch is against gawk. If you send
>> > me the correct patch, I can push it upstream.
>> >
>> Oh, sorry....
>> I attached correct patch.
>
> Thanks, but there seems a problem here. The configure script from
> octave-octgpr 1.1.5-1 does not contain the -little option at all.

This patch can work gfortran check of configure normally on sh4.
The reason is because autoconf which made configure included in
octave-octgpr is old.

>
> I need to look into this, it might be that octave3.0 contains an old
> config.guess file.

Yes, this revision method is not preferable. This is a simple revision method.
I think that you had better constitute configure again with new autoconf.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro
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