Koen van der Drift wrote:
Koen: Sorry I missed your emails - I'll have a look at it. Martin is right though, it doesn't pose any technical problems, just philosophical ones (i.e. the octave package, like many others, doesn't strictly conform to policy). g77, for example, also installs darwin version numbered directories. Your --build=powerpc-apple-darwin is a good suggestion though, and may be an easy fix.
On Dec 15, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Koen van der Drift wrote:
Hi,
The current version of octave installs a bunch of files in directories that are called powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0 This makes it OS X version dependent, and thus .deb files for octave are different for whatever OS X version the user had installed (I happened to have 10.3.4 installed when I build octave). Is it possible to fix this, maybe by passing --build=powerpc-apple-darwin to the configure params?
(I've mailed the maintainer - Jeff Whitaker - twice but got no response. Anyone know if he is still around?)
As far as I can see from cvs logs, he is still very much around and takes care of a couple of rather difficult packages. Maybe he concentrates on really important problems?
I have CC'd him, so he can decide if this is important.
Does this version-dependent directory pose any technical problem, as opposed to philosophical or political? I haven't experienced any problem with it.
The reason I'm asking is that am the maintainer of plplot and it installs its octave related files in the octave directories named powerpc-apple-darwin7.X.X based on the OS X version present when octave was built. So, it is my understanding that a .deb file should always be the same, no matter which Mac it was built on. This is clearly not the case in this situation, which is why I asked.
- Koen.
-Jeff
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