[Mingw-cross-env-list] Merging (parts of) mxe-octave

[John W. Eaton]

Hi,

Back in February 2014 we discussed merging some changes from mxe-octave 
back into the MXE project.  I'd like to pick that up again.

I'm no longer too concerned about native builds or trying to support MSVC.

For now, I would just like to see if we can get a basic build of Octave 
going in the current MXE system.

The steps outlined in this message:


http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2014-02/msg00037.html

seem about right to me.

Do all MXE packages now support shared builds?  If not, I would try to 
make that change for any Octave dependencies.

Beyond that, there are about 30 additional Octave dependencies that 
would need to be added as new packages to MXE.  I can work on that by 
porting the mxe-octave Makefile fragments and patches to the current MXE 
system.

Is this something you would be interested in?

To start, I'm attaching a changeset for GLPK.  Does this look OK?  I'm 
much more familiar with Mercurial than Git, so if something else that is 
needed, or if there is a better or preferred way of submitting patches, 
please let me know.

jwe

mxe-glpk-changeset.txt
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