Re: Octave 3.6.0-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2012/1/12 Carnë Draug <address@hidden>:

> I have built Arpack from source for debian stable (I have .deb for
> i386 if anyone needs them) and octave builds fine.
>
> Now I have 58 skipped tests but from missing QRUPDATE lib. However,
> "libqrupdate-dev" is installed. Is this another case where the system
> library is buggy and needs to be installed from source?

No, not quite buggy. It's just that the version in unstable adds a few
features, and the tests are skipped if those features aren't found.

You can do the same backport of libqrupdate-dev from unstable to stable.

- Jordi G. H.