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Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd)
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John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd) |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:05:36 -0500 |
On 11-Jun-2004, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) <address@hidden> wrote:
| I finally got a working octave, but only by using rpms, and even
| then I had to force it it ignore dependencies. Without --nodeps I
| got this error:
|
| error: Failed dependencies:
| libqhull >= 0:2003.1 is needed by octave-forge-2004.02.12-2mdk
|
| But, as you can see below, the qhull I was installing *was* >= 2003.1, and
| I haven't located an rpm for a release any more recent than 2003.1-1:
It's unfortunate that there are problems with the RPM files that you
found, but ensuring that the packages for every distribution work
correctly is a bit beyond the scope of the Octave and Octave-forge
projects. If you want to see the packages fixed, then I suggest that
you report the problems you have with the RPM packages to whoever
built them.
| And after many days of work, I still don't have a solution to the original
| problem, namely that the researcher I'm working for wants to use delaunayn;
| it still comes up missing.
On a current (i.e., testing) Debian system, all you would have to do
is
apt-get install octave2.1 octave-forge
and I think you would get a working delaunayn.
So apparently it is possible to build a working version of Octave and
Octave-forge.
I've not read all the messages you've sent carefully, but it seems
that you have been mixing versions when you have tried to build these
packages yourself. I don't think it is reasonable to expect that you
can grab any combination of versions and expect perfect results. For
Debian, Dirk is apparently building Octave 2.1.57 and an Octave-forge
version 2004.02.12. Minor changes may have been required to get a
clean build, but I don't think it should take major surgery. I don't
recall precisely what OS/tools you are using, but if the build fails
on your system with these versions of Octave and Octave-forge, then
perhaps you are using the wrong versions of other tools?
jwe
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