On Dec 31, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 12/15/2011 01:24 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 15-Dec-2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
| On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:45:21 -0500
| "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden> wrote:
|> Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
|> purposes. I do not consider them to be Octave releases. If people
|> think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
|> can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
|>
|> I plan to release Octave 3.6.0 in the next few weeks. Even if you
|> have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial archive, it
|> would help if you could build from the snapshot and report any
|> problems.
|
| Builds fine in Fedora, which shouldn't be surprising since AFAIK you're
| running on Fedora.
No, Debian.
| I did note a couple of things with rpmlint:
|
| octave-debuginfo.x86_64: W:
| spurious-executable-perm
/usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/liboctave/singleton-cleanup.h
| octave-debuginfo.x86_64: E:
| incorrect-fsf-address /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/src/gl2ps.h
| octave-debuginfo.x86_64: W:
| spurious-executable-perm /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/liboctave/oct-locbuf.h
| octave-debuginfo.x86_64: E:
| incorrect-fsf-address /usr/src/debug/octave-3.5.90/src/gl2ps.c
I fixed the file permissions.
We just import the gl2ps.c and gl2ps.h files from the gl2ps project,
so I think the right place to fix that is in their sources. Could
someone please do that? http://geuz.org/gl2ps/
Thanks,
jwe
If this is an external project we should be linking to the system provided
version instead of bundling it.
As far as I know, system versions of gl2ps don't exist. Which (if I recall
correctly ?) is why it was decided we'd bundle it.
Ben