RE: (mxe-octave) forge package build issues with compiler and dev octave

[JohnD]

> >>
> >> Today I've made an mxe-octave cross-build with the patched windows
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> Then, when building of-control I got errors about missing functions
> >> that
> > were
> >> removed from Lapack 3.6+:
> >>
> >> :
> >> slicotlibrary.a(AB08NX.o):AB08NX.f:(.text+0x848): undefined reference
> >> to `dlatzm_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(AG08BY.o):AG08BY.f:(.text+0x878): undefined reference
> >> to `dlatzm_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SB01BY.o):SB01BY.f:(.text+0x313): undefined reference
> >> to `dlatzm_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SB01BY.o):SB01BY.f:(.text+0x48e): undefined reference
> >> to `dlatzm_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SB01BY.o):SB01BY.f:(.text+0x1266): undefined
> >> reference to `dlatzm_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SB01BY.o):SB01BY.f:(.text+0x1317): more undefined
> > references
> >> to `dlatzm_' follow
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SG03AD.o):SG03AD.f:(.text+0x7c8): undefined reference
> >> to `dgegs_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SG03BD.o):SG03BD.f:(.text+0x746): undefined reference
> >> to `dgegs_'
> >> slicotlibrary.a(SB01FY.o):SB01FY.f:(.text+0x465): undefined reference
> >> to `dlatzm_'
> >>
> >> ..so  it looks like of-control may soon have to be updated to be
> > compatible with
> >> lapack 3.6+
> >>
> >> BTW trying to build mxe-octave with lapack 3.7.0 I got an error that
> >> cmake doesn't want to build in the source directory but needs a
> >> separate build
> > dir. So I
> >> downgraded to lapack-3.6.1 that at least allowed default-octave to
> >> build
> > fine
> >> w/o changing anything else than the version number and SHA1 in
> > src/lapack.mk
> >>
> >> Philip
> >
> > A hour or so ago I pushed up fixes for the failing forge packages - I
> > also updated blas and lapack - all built of with me from a clean build
> > directory
> 
> Good, I see you amended lapack to get built in a separate subdir.
> Did you also include fixes for of-control? AFAIU (see above, but I can be
wrong)
> it has to be adapted to the newer lapack version.
> 
> Philip

I cheated I guess, and enabled depreciated functions in the mxe-octave
compile of lapack.
Without it, octave fails to compile as well due to bug #50463