Re: Octave 3.5.92 snapshot available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Jan-2012, Lukas Reichlin wrote:

| On 06.01.2012, at 22:02, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > 
| > A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
| > directory /gnu/octave:
| > 
| >  48481042bdd5f924ccfc983916cd1e16  octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
| > 
| >  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17958889 Jan 06 20:55 octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
| > 
| > The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-92) in the Mercurial
| > archive.
| > 
| > Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
| > purposes.  I do not consider them to be Octave releases.  If people
| > think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
| > can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
| > 
| > Unless there are some serious problems with this snapshot, I would
| > like to release it (or something very close to it) as 3.6.0 in the
| > next few days.  Even if you have been building Octave regularly from
| > the Mercurial archive, it would help if you could build from the
| > snapshot and report any problems.
| > 
| > jwe
| 
| I've created a MacPorts portfile for the Mac users amongst us. The build 
failed, but I don't know the reason. I attached the log in main.log

Does the following change fix the problem for you?

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/906eecd4bf43

After applying this change, I think you will need to do run the
following commands in your source tree, then run Make again.  Since
this change affects a file that is included in a Makefile.am file,
you'll need automake and autoconf for this patch to work when applied
to the 3.5.92 sources.  You should not need them when building from a
future snapshot or release tarball.

  cd src/DLD-FUNCTIONS
  ./config-module.sh

jwe