Re: Adding configure options to MXE Octave build

[JohnD]

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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:06:09 -0800
> From: Rik <address@hidden>
> To: Octave Maintainers <address@hidden>
> Subject: Adding configure options to MXE Octave build
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> 1/5/15
> 
> All,
> 
> What is the recommended way to add configure options to Octave's configure
> script, not to MXE's configure script?
> 
> I'm trying to build a recent tip and the audio files are causing the build
to fail so I
> need to add --without-portaudio and --without-sndfile to the Octave
configure
> script.  I've hacked it up, for the time being, by directly editing
src/octave.mk
> and adding the options to there.  It seems like there must be a more
natural way
> to do this.
> 
> --Rik
> 

Most options have been added by creating a new --enable-option in the top
level mxe-octave configure/Makefile and pass it through to the .mk file for
octave (as done for --enable-64, --enable-jit, --enable-docs)

JD