Re: GNU Octave 3.4.3 Released - MacPorts portfile

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 10, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lukas Reichlin wrote:

> On 10.10.2011, at 17:31, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
>> The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of GNU
>> Octave 3.4.3.  This version is primarily a bug fixing release.
>> 
>> The source code for Octave 3.4.3 is available for download at:
>> 
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>> 
>> Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.4.html for a list of significant
>> user-visible changes in this release.
>> 
>> To help improve future versions, please report problems using the
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>> 
>> Unless critical regressions are found in this release, Octave
>> 3.4.3 will likely be the last in the 3.4.x release series.
>> 
>> As always, many people contributed to this Octave release.  A complete
>> list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.
>> 
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> 
> Hi Ben
> 
> I've modified the octave-devel portfile for 3.4.3. Does it work for you? Do 
> you have any improvements? I'd like to send an updated portfile to MacPorts 
> since this port is not really actively maintained.
> 
> Best regards,
> Lukas
> 
> <Portfile>

Nice! It does build for me.

I notice that the resulting Octave is not able to determine the screensize.

warning: no graphical display found
>> get (0, 'screensize')
ans =

   1   1   1   1

This isn't really a big problem since the units conversion for the figure 
doesn't work correctly.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34198

However, once this bug is fixed, I think it will be important to link to either 
x11 or carbon libs.

Ben