On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Philip Nienhuis <pr.nienh...@hccnet.nl> wrote: >> Hi Philip, >> >> After being inactive for a while, I recently recompiled octave and a bunch >> of forge packages. So I could debug the issue you reported and found out >> that >> the code I was looking at (SVN) is not the one that is downloaded from the >> octave-forge download pages. The SVN code contains some changes that >> should fix the issue. So it's just a matter of releasing a new version of >> the >> Windows package. > > This does ring a bell - I already stated a few posts back that I recognized > the symptoms from -maybe- two years back, or longer. > Given your explanation above it is intruiging that Benjamin managed to > compile it for the 3.2.4-MinGW binary.
Maybe he just re-created the package from SVN. > I also couldn't track down the changes you mention. http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave?view=revision&revision=5968 > I d/led a GNU tarball, copied all files in it over into an unzipped > windows-1.0.8.tar.gz package, ran ./autogen.sh, tar.gz-ed it again and tried > to install it in Octave-MinGW-3.4.2, but I got tons of warnings and several > compile errors. > But admittedly the 3.4.2 development environment I have with me on my laptop > (abroad) may not be perfect. > > Did you succeed in installing it yourself? Yes, though I'm using MSVC, not MinGW. > Sure, if I can get the package to compile myself. And it may take a while as > I haven't got much time in September. > > Better to first try to get it to compile & work OK with Octave 3.4.x & 3.5.+ > (MinGW; you still run MSVC, don't you?) before it's released. I already released the package (posted on the release forum, pending upload). I'm pretty confident the code will (should) compile with MinGW. Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
