Re: qhull and octave

[marco atzeri]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:03 PM, P. A. Cheeseman  wrote:
> | Which tarball is "the tarball"?  Where did you get it?
>
>     The link is ...
>
>         http://www.qhull.org/download/qhull-2009.1.1.tar.gz
>
> | If you think you've found a bug in Octave, then open a bug report here:
>
>     I don't think this is a bug in Octave or Qhull.  Octave built o.k. with
> 2009.1.1 and is just probably not yet reorganized in its configure script,
> etc. to deal with the qhull-2011.1 version changes.
>
>     I mentioned the issues with 2011.1 in hopes of saving others some time.
> I didn't dig down far enough to identify the source of the 'make check'
> failures other than to note it was the qhull tests.  Backing down to the
> 2009.1.1 release of Qhull led to a clean configure step, clean build, and
> clean check.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Phil
>

qhull changed api between 2009 and 2010 version.

I noticed packing the cygwin version and I was obliged to bump the lib
from 5 to 6

Regards
Marco