Aw: Re: Re: Octave in Google Summer of Code 2013 / Low Level I/O

[Stefan Mahr]

>> warning: marking 'gpib' as not implemented
>> warning: marking 'gpib_read' as not implemented
>> warning: marking 'gpib_write' as not implemented
>> warning: marking 'gpib_timeout' as not implemented
>> warning: marking 'gpib_close' as not implemented
>>
>> Is gpib properly documented?
>>
>> I assume gpib cannot be build since linux-gpib is not installed. An option
>> would be to make a dummy function if libs are not installed.
>>
>
> The best would be to print a message telling the user they need that.
> I am not talking about a big chekcing, just a message. Cause in the
> case users use the system package manger it should it by itself
>
> Also, we will get some complaints from the Debian package managers, probably.

Sorry, I did not understand.

Where the warning "marking 'gpib' as not implemented" comes from? I assume the 
release script doesn't build the gpib functions since linux-gpib is not 
installed. That's why the documentation can't be build correctly, right?

I could add some defines to instrument-control source, that gpib, gpib_read 
a.s.o. is always build. Resulting functions would be dummy functions only 
printing out a "not supported" message.


> Alas, I can't find any package gpib in my Debian distribution. And I
> see there are issues with the kernel version....
> http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I have 3.6 and probably it doesn't work here... mmm... maybe we aren't
> done with GPIB.

GPIB works with actual kernel. The svn is still active. I prepared a package 
for Ubuntu 12.10:
https://launchpad.net/~dac922/+archive/gpib