Re: Re: Re: instrument-control package

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Stefan Mahr <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Would it be possible to write some autoconf checks for that library?
>>>
>>> autoconf already checks for gpib libs. If not installed, gpib functions will
>>> not build. As fas as I understand that's the problem with octave forge 
>>> release
>>> script. If the gpib part can't be build, the script can't parse the help 
>>> text
>>> to build the documentation.
>>>
>>> One solution is to build dummy functions if libs are not installed, so the 
>>> help
>>> text can be parsed.
>> If the autoconf checks are already in place. Can't we add an warning
>> when the libraries are not installed? I can help with that if Stefan
>> doesn't have the time.
>
> Where you want to place the warnings? The configure script already shows a
> (incomplete) summary what will be build.

that doesn't show when one runs

pkg install <package>

or at least not here. Maybe is another patch to be applied to pkg (we
already want it more verbose by default).