Re: Does current mxe-octave of stable branch supports 4.0.2?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: Philip Nienhuis 

> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA ; "octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/5/1, Sun 05:52
> Subject: Re: Does current mxe-octave of stable branch supports 4.0.2?
> 
>T atsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>>  From: PhilipNienhuis
>> 
>>>  To: octave-maintainers
>>>  Cc:
>>>  Date: 2016/4/30, Sat 21:19
>>>  Subject: Re: Does current mxe-octave of stable branch supports 4.0.2?
>>> 
>>>  t macchant wrote
>>>>    Hello
>>>> 
>>>>    Octave-4.0.2 was uploaded recently.
>>>>   http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/octave-4-0-2-td4676595.html
>>>> 
>>>>    I have tried to build 64 bit binaries using stable branch build 
> for
>>>>    mxe-octave.
>>>> 
>>  CX on the mxe-octave tree
>>>  for stable branch
>>>>    reports
>>>>    the below updates.
>>>> 
>>>>    index.html
>>>>    src/build-gettext.mk
>>>>    src/libmng.mk
>>>>    src/mingw-texinfo-1-fixes.patch
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>    Thus I have to hack the src/stable-octave.mk.
>>> 
>>>  Maybe i do not understand you well?
>>> 
>>>  .... but in hg.octave.org/mxe-octave I see this:
>>> 
>>>  24 hours ago     John Donoghue     of-optim: update to 1.5.1 default 
> tip
>>>  24 hours ago     John Donoghue     of-struct: update to 1.0.13
>>>  2 days ago     John Donoghue     stable-octave: update for v4.0.2
>>>  :
>>> 
>>>  so mxe-octave looks to be up-to-date.
>>> 
>>>  Philip
>>> 
>>  OK. In the tutorial of wiki for mxe [1] suggest to use
>> 
>> 
>>  "hg -v pull" and "hg -v update" but not "hg 
> pull" and "hg update"
>>  Perhaps this is the origin why I was not able to get the recent change.
> 
> The "-v" flag merely means "verbose", i.e., show how many 
> changesets/files are to be processed / updated.
> 
> Could it be that you just by accident pulled / updated just before John 
> D. pushed those changesets?
> Whatever happened, I think that if you try now, it will work fine :-)
> 
> Philip


I have execute "hg pull" and "hg update" again and execute autoconf, 
./configure with options, and make.
Now it seems that octave-4.0.2 is building now.

As you told, perhaps the phenomena that I met are mere bad timing.

Thank you for your follow up

Tatsuro