Re: Testing MXE-Octave

[PhilipNienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 02/11/2013 01:38 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> 
>> Here's some feedback on the most obvious glitches I found in the
>> previous version (with 3.7.1 snapshot):
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> - The GUI's workspace pane isn't functional - entering something like "a
>> = 10" doesn't make a show up in the workspace.
> 
> Yeah, there are lots of problems with the GUI.  I don't think that these 
> problems are specific to the MXE cross build.

IIRC it worked OK with the 3.7.1 snapshot on Linux, so I suspect is *is*
related.
The UPM version (admittedly based on 3.6.2) doesn't have this issue. On all
recent Linux builds I've made the workspace pane works good as well.


> <snip>
>> Trying the latest MXE (changeset 2975:839a571d0b1d) (hoping the arpack
>> stuff & workspace would be OK now) the build ends with:
>> ============================
>> :
>> [download] qhull
>>
>> Wrong checksum of package qhull!
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Connecting to s3.amazonaws.com (s3.amazonaws.com)|207.171.163.205|:80...
>> connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>> 2013-02-11 18:42:24 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>> --2013-02-11 18:42:24--
>> http://d1yihgixbnrglp.cloudfront.net/qhull-2009.1.tar.gz
>> Resolving d1yihgixbnrglp.cloudfront.net
>> (d1yihgixbnrglp.cloudfront.net)... 54.240.166.223, 54.240.166.211,
>> 54.240.166.123, ...
>> Connecting to d1yihgixbnrglp.cloudfront.net
>> (d1yihgixbnrglp.cloudfront.net)|54.240.166.223|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>> 2013-02-11 18:42:24 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> [log] /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe-octave/log/qhull-download
>>
>> make: *** [/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe-octave/usr/installed/qhull]
>> Error 1
>> address@hidden mxe-octave]$
>> ============================
>>
>> There's no mention of qhull in http://d1yihgixbnrglp.cloudfront.net
> 
> I don't see this problem.  The amazonaws.com and cloudfront.net URLs are 
> some sort of secondary sites that MXE uses.  I didn't do that part.  If 
> you are seeing that, then you must be having trouble connecting to the 
> default site for qhull downloads.  Look in log/qhull for more info.

I noted some/the MXE specific patches are included in mxe-octave/src. So I
took a guess and simply manually downloaded qhull-2009.1.tar.gz (after a
google hunt) into ./mxe-octave/pkg.
After that and restarting ./mx-dist the build seems to continue past
building qhull.

Perhaps this trick wil work for other missing dependency sources too.
(Crossing fingers......)

(tomorrow morning I'll check how far the build got)

Thanks,

Philip



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