Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:02:15 +0200 From: Kay Lehmann <kay_lehmann@web.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: octave-port and octave-forge Message-ID: <200306131102.16113.kay_lehmann@web.de>
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Hello, I have to ask some questions about octave-port. These are all issues, because I am working on a port for octave-forge, which I am desperate for. 1. octave-port need some modification since configure-option --enable-shared needs to be enabled in order to be able to load *.oct-files. This results in some major changes to pkg-plist, because octave installs some shared libraries, seems to be build more modular and needs more space to compile and to be installed. So the question is: should this be an option for octave port or is it okay to make it the default? If it has to be an option I, think I need some advice on handling pkg-plist. 2. octave-forge is somehow broken on 4-stable: 2.1 One part of octave-forge installs a shell-script. The port I wrote till now tries to strip the file during installation and fails. I don't know if strip is really necessary for a shell-script, is it? 2.2 another part (communication) includes a perlscript, which is used to build the texi- and info-files. This script is broken with 4-stable-perl, which comes with base system. So should it be marked broken completly or should there be a message that this part would not be installed with a 4-stable sytem, while it is installed with 5.x? The solution I wanted to choose is to simply disable problematic parts (communication is enabled in 5.x). Any help would be appreciated. If somebody want to take a look at octave-modifications (Makefile and pkg-plist) are available at: http://home.arcor.de/kay_lehmann/freebsd/ports/not_published/octave/Makefile http://home.arcor.de/kay_lehmann/freebsd/ports/not_published/octave/pkg-plist or diffs: http://home.arcor.de/kay_lehmann/freebsd/ports/not_published/octave/Makefile.diff Sorry, I don't know if this diff works because I forgot to backup original Makefile, but I think it should work. http://home.arcor.de/kay_lehmann/freebsd/ports/not_published/octave/pkg-plist.diff Thanks for the answers. Greetings, Kay
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