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Re: Compiling from source "The right way"
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JuanPi |
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Re: Compiling from source "The right way" |
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Tue, 16 May 2017 16:12:47 +0200 |
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 16 May 2017 at 14:14, JuanPi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> In the wiki we menton a INSTALL.OCTVAE file which I do not see int he
>> source tree. http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems#The_right_way
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>> Does anybody know where it is or how it is called now?
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> It is still called INSTALL.OCTAVE and is created during the build of
> the distributed packaged [1, 2].
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> The instructions on the wiki don't look aimed at building Octave
> releases, it doesn't even mention bootstrap.
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> Carnë
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> [1] http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/f45402b9dcc4/Makefile.am#l103
> [2]
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/f45402b9dcc4/doc/interpreter/module.mk#l317
Well, they are aimed at building from source, so it should be correct.
The file mentioned is not on the source tree. Should it be included?
Is it worth to update that wiki page?
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