Re: MXE Octave: "... has no symbols" warning under Mac OS X

[c.]

On 23 Sep 2013, at 15:19, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> METIS, pdflib, and gnuplot show up with licenses labeled as "Restrictive".
> 
> There are other licenses I'm not familiar with (Apache, APSL, etc)  The list 
> is attached.
> 
> Another concern, is that Macports could make changes to their code that would 
> break our ability to create a bundle.  The macports command I'm using to 
> extract Octave and all it dependencies is ...
> 
>       sudo port mdmg octave-devel ...
> 
> This is a rather fragile command.  Even when it works, I often encounter 
> esoteric problems that need some debugging in order to produce the desired 
> dmg.  There was a period of about a year when I was unable to run the command 
> successfully.  I'm not sure if the problem was on my end or with Macports, 
> but I did succeed again after Macports bumped up to the latest version.  At 
> the same time, I uninstalled a lot of variants of various packages.  Thus, I 
> have no idea which of these changes allowed me to complete the mdmg command.
> 
> Ben

We could decide to maintain a portfile in the Octave source tree to make sure 
it remains in-sync with the latest sources.
On the other hand, whatever build system we choose I'm sure it will break every 
now and then during development,
It's all a matter of having someone willing to spend the effort to fix it when 
this happens ...
c.