Re: Problems with mkoctfile in new Octave 3.4.1

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Jun-2011, José Luis García Pallero wrote:

| Apparently, cloning gnulib from git (autogen.sh try it internally) has
| some problems.
| At least in Debian Sid, gnulib is present in the repositories so it
| can be installed easy and fast. Once gnulib is installed, ./autogen.sh
| must be executed with the flags:
| 
| --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=/path/to/gnulib
| 
| --gnulib-srcdir is mandatory although gnulib is installed on standard path

Gnulib changes constantly.  How old is the package in Debian Sid?

You can also avoid the problem by not passing the --depth option to
git when cloning from savannah.

jwe