Re: octave.mk MXE file still necessary?

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/26/2018 12:08 PM, Rik wrote:

> Using 'grep -r octave.mk *' in the mxe directory I see that configure.ac,
> index.html, and dist-files.mk mention that file.  It is easy enough to
> remove octave.mk from dist-files.mk and index.html, and to update
> configure.ac to use default-octave.mk.
>
> I ran 'make clean' and 'autoconf' and am now testing whether I can do a
> full build.

The mxe-octave makefile is really complicated and does lots of 
transformations on variables so unfortunately grep won't find 
everything.  And then there are some conventions that are not 
immediately obvious.

I checked in the following change to remove the "octave" package:

  http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/9942a9c37ffe

If I remember correctly, later versions of mxe (not mxe-octave) don't 
rely on the index.html file to indicate which packages (and src/PKG.mk 
files) are part of the collection.

jwe