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scarypezsanta

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Octave-Update

Is the octave version in the repository going to be updated any time soon? Version 3.2.0 is out now and the optional add-on packages on their homepage are no longer compatible with the older version of Octave.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Octave-Update

If it's already flagged out-of-date (I see that it is), then file a bug report

Allan

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Re: Octave-Update

Umm.... no.  No bug reports for out of date packages.

Get a working PKGBUILD for the update and email either the maintainer or the arch-general list.

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pressh

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Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: Octave-Update

Is the octave version in the repository going to be updated any time soon? Version 3.2.0 is out now and the optional add-on packages on their homepage are no longer compatible with the older version of Octave.

It may take some time as it doesn't compile easily, something with pthread IIRC. Well actually it does compile when I define a custom LDFLAGS but then it doesn't run.
Most annoying thing is it does take ages before it comes to the error while compiling so it is not really a quick process to try things out and my time is of course limited...

Bubla

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From: Rosice [CZ]

Registered: 2006-12-24

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Re: Octave-Update

It may take some time as it doesn't compile easily, something with pthread IIRC. Well actually it does compile when I define a custom LDFLAGS but then it doesn't run.
Most annoying thing is it does take ages before it comes to the error while compiling so it is not really a quick process to try things out and my time is of course limited...

If you have difficulties with compilation, you can use ccache http://ccache.samba.org/.
Just run the configure script like

CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" ./configure <your options>

If you do this,

make clean && make

will execute really fast.
I have recompiled the new octave with ccache and it worked. Interesting since compilation with bare g++ really failed.
However compilation errors belong to Octave bugtracker since if the configure script determines that compilation should be OK and it is not OK, it is a bug.

Bubla

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From: Rosice [CZ]

Registered: 2006-12-24

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Re: Octave-Update

Actually I have tried to compile the tarball now with no fancy settings like ccache etc. and I got no errors.
I have ran 'make' instead of 'make -j3', so maybe there is something wrong with the autotools setup and it may happen that something does not get built on time...
Could you please try to compile octave with no make paralellization?

And second thing, octave support tests, so 'make check' should be ran after compilation to check for errors.
I got 3 FAILs, 2 of them are expected, so there is probably something (most likely not something serious) wrong.

I am leaving for two weeks course, so I don't have time to post bugs to ocatave tracker, but I think that building octave is possible and that it can go to the repo soon.
BTW you should not run autogen.sh, it is usually needed only if getting files from SVN, AFAIK you should rely on the configure script provided in the tarball.
Regards,
Matej