Re: Lets move discussions about OctaveDE to the Sourceforge forums for OctaveDE

[John Swensen]

On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> tor, 04 12 2008 kl. 23:41 -0500, skrev John Swensen:
> > I think that the Octave mailing lists should be used for Octave
> > proper.  Since OctaveDE has a sourceforge page, we should use the
> > forums there to discuss topics concerning OctaveDE.  I may post
> > periodic updates to help-octave and octave-maintainers, but it will
> > most likely just be concerning releases.  I will answer questions  
> > that
> > come in on the Octave mailing lists, but I think future questions
> > related specifically to OctaveDE should be directed to the OctaveDE
> > forums (unless the moderators of help-octave and octave-maintainers
> > disagree for some reason).
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=176034
>
> Personally, I'd prefer it if the discussion could be kept on this  
> list.
> That way it's easier to follow what's going on in OctaveDE.
>
> BTW I have a couple of comments/questions regarding your 0.2 release:
>
> 1) Currently, ./configure doesn't check for the existence of
>   xapian and glu/glut. Since these are required for compilation, it
>   would be nice of they were checked.
>
> 2) Compilation fails for with the following error
>
>   OctaveUI.o: In function `OctaveUI::createOctaveVteDockItem()':
>   /home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octavede-0.2/ui/OctaveUI.cpp:696:
> undefined reference to `openpty'
>
>   Any thoughts on how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Søren

I intend to make a re-release with (1) and (2) fixed.  I am not a  
autotools wizard, so I never know if my solution is "right" or if it  
is just a kludge to get it working.  (2) is caused by the fact that I  
need -lutil explicitly for Linux machines.  I also need to fix the  
'make install' process so that it doesn't have a warning/error at the  
end of the install process.  With this warning/error, the Ubuntu/ 
Debian packages won't build properly.

John Swensen