Re: char to int conversion problem

[David Bateman]

Alessandro Brezzi wrote:
> David,
> 
> 2007/4/29, David Bateman <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>:
> 
>     Try the attached patch, it works for me :-)... Note that with "" it
>     worked before in any case..
> 
> 
> I've tried without success to apply the patch to the SRPM (Fedora Core
> 6); after putting your patch in the SOURCES directory and having
> modified the octave.spec to point to the saved patch, the rpmbuild -ba
> return:
> 
> Patch #0 (octave-2007.04.29.david.patch):
> + patch -p0 -s
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> ./src/OPERATORS/op-int-conv.cc.rej
> 
> This is what I've in the op-int-conv.cc.rej:
> 
> ***************
> *** 188,195 ****
>    INSTALL_CONVOPS (bool)
>    INSTALL_CONVOPS (bool_matrix)
>    INSTALL_CONVOPS (range)
> !   INSTALL_CONVOPS (char_matrix_sq_str)
> !   INSTALL_CONVOPS (char_matrix_dq_str)
> 
>    INSTALL_INT_CONV_FUNCTIONS (int8)
>    INSTALL_INT_CONV_FUNCTIONS (int16)
> --- 178,184 ----
>    INSTALL_CONVOPS (bool)
>    INSTALL_CONVOPS (bool_matrix)
>    INSTALL_CONVOPS (range)
> !   INSTALL_CONVOPS (char_matrix_str)
> 
>    INSTALL_INT_CONV_FUNCTIONS (int8)
>    INSTALL_INT_CONV_FUNCTIONS (int16)
> 
> What is wrong? The Fedora Core6 Extra source RPM is octave.2.9.9
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 

I suspect that Fedora has an added patch, as op-int-onv.cc hasn't been
changed for 2 years.. Can't you force it into the file, regenerate the
patch and then rebuild? In any case I'm always based against the latest
CVS and so I'll have a hard time trying to debug this for you..

D.