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Re: octave setup.hint file screwed up
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:27:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: octave setup.hint file screwed up
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> upset: *** warning package octave-headers requires non-existent package g++
> upset: *** warning package octave-headers requires non-existent package g77
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> I have removed gcc, g++, and g77 from the requires line for
> octave-header's setup.hint. I haven't been closing following any of
> the discussions about octave but it seems unlikely to me that a header
> file would rely on gcc. Isn't more likely to be that gcc would rely
> on a header file?
>
The file submitted was as suggested by upstream, and has been waiting for some
time on comments/evaluation. I should have done a closer review myself and
noticed that the proposed dependencies don't have the right names for cygwin.
Sorry about that.
This is a development package, designed to build compiled octave functions
(*.oct). It cannot function properly without at least a C++ compiler. It
includes mkoctfile, which is a command-line compiler helper designed to assist
in the preparation of .oct files.
I would suggest including gcc-g++ as a dependency, as this is the minimum
required to do anything useful with the package. I suppose gcc-g77 is optional,
and could be dropped.
If it isn't a show-stopper, I would prefer not to update the setup.hints file
in the source package until a new release of octave, or until we find an issue
that would require changing the binary package.
Thanks,
Jim Phillips