Re: mxe octave installer & java

[PhilipNienhuis]

Markus Bergholz wrote
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Philip Nienhuis <

> address@hidden

> >
> wrote:
> 
>> Lutz Kohlrausch wrote
>> > A big thank you to whoever provides the windows installer at
>> > mxeoctave.osuv.de
>> >
>> > The octave build there had java support compiled in up to at least
>> > version 3.8.1-2.
>> >
>> > Since at least version 3.8.1-4, java support is missing from these
>> > builds.
>> >
>> > I need java support so I was wondering what happened and if I could
>> > do something to help.
>> >
>> > Thanks to the excellent build instructions at
>> > http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer (linked from
>> > http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/README.html ) I was able to recreate the
>> > installer myself on a Ubuntu system.
>> >
>> > The only minor glitch was that, apparently, NASA has recently updated
>> > the cfitsio package without changing the version number.  This led to
>> > an invalid checksum error, which I could fix by issuing
>> >
>> > make update-checksum-cfitsio
>> >
>> > I gave the ./configure command an explicit "--enable-java" argument.
>> > Not sure if this is needed, as the help states that it is enabled by
>> > default.
>> >
>> > The resulting octave for windows has working java support.  So it is
>> > not a general issue for octave on windows, I am glad, but something
>> > is missing on the build machine used to create the installers at
>> > mxeoctave.osuv.de.  I hope I can call the attention of the volunteer
>> > who provides these builds to this issue with this message, so that
>> > it gets fixed.
>> >
>> > Thanks for octave and thanks for the windows installer.
>>
>> The binaries at mxeoctave.osuv.de are "unofficial" builds, generously
>> supplied by a volunteer. The status of the "official" installer is still
>> unclear.
>> As often in OSS it is at the discretion of the volunteer who jumps in to
>> decide what to include in some piece of SW and what not. In this case, I
>> think the one who runs mxeoctave.osuv.de doesn't care a lot for Java.
>>
>>
> Always funny to read.
> At least, I even don't care about Windows too. Furthermore, the builds are
> made on a plain minimal ubuntu 14.04 machine. there are only the packages
> installed which are listed in the wiki.

Well I can't make it appear much different than it is, can I? :-)

And I do think you're right: you make the binaries & put them up, so you
decide.
That's the beauty of OSS.

Philip




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