Re: dicom doesn't build with 4.0.0

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 07.07.2015 15:34, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I've just updated octave to 4.0.0 in Fedora Rawhide.  The dicom package
> doesn't build:
>
> mkoctfile -c  -g dicomlookup.cpp
> dicominfo.cpp:79:1: error: 'Octave_map' does not name a type
>   Octave_map dump(const char filename[], int chatty);
>   ^
> dicominfo.cpp:80:18: error: variable or field 'dumpDataSet' declared void
>   void dumpDataSet(Octave_map *om, const gdcm::DataSet *ds, int chatty,
> int sequenceDepth);
>                    ^
> dicominfo.cpp:80:18: error: 'Octave_map' was not declared in this scope
> .....

This is a known bug #44624, see [1].

> Is this package still maintained?

There have been several changes to the source code [2] since the last 
release in 2011, but obviously nobody has found the time and motivation 
to make a new release.

You could try the current mercurial sources together with the patch from 
the bug report. If that works, it is probably time to make a new release 
for that package.

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?44624
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/dicom/ci/default/tree/