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--- Begin Message ---Package: octave3.0Version: 3.0.2Severity: important Subject: octave3.0: libpq-dev needs to be included in dependencies.Package: octave3.0Version: 3.0.2Severity: important Please type your report below this line ***Octave 3.0 itself builds fine from apt-get, but I was trying to add the 'database' package, and ran into some issues trying to talk to postgresql databases. All otherdatabases supported by this package are OK. Talking to the database package creator:> I installed your kit, and can talk to sqlite3 and mysql OK, but when I> type in 'postgres', I don't receive a definition. Any ideas why? Does postgres.oct get built? If not, can you send your configure log? If yes, is it in your path when you run postgres? Xavier THEN:> So I found the problem:>> You do a pkg install database-1.0.1.tar.gz -verbose and you get:>> checking postgresql/libpq-fe.h usability... no checking> postgresql/libpq-fe.h presence... no checking for> postgresql/libpq-fe.h... no checking mysql/mysql.h usability... yes> checking mysql/mysql.h presence... yes>> so look around for libpq-fe.h:>> sz-ud017:/usr/include# apt-file search libpq-fe.h> libpq-dev: /usr/include/postgresql/libpq-fe.h>> sz-ud017:/usr/include# apt-get install libpq-dev Reading package> lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...> Done The following extra packages will be installed:> libssl-dev> Suggested packages:> postgresql-doc-8.3> The following NEW packages will be installed:> libpq-dev libssl-dev> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > libpq-dev libssl-dev> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded.> Need to get 2519kB of archives.> After this operation, 6701kB of > additional disk space will be used.>> And then an install gives:> checking > postgresql/libpq-fe.h usability... yes checking> postgresql/libpq-fe.h > presence... yes checking for> postgresql/libpq-fe.h... yes checking > mysql/mysql.h usability... yes> checking mysql/mysql.h presence... yes>> and > now I can talk to a Postgres DB.>> libpq-dev is not installed by default > however on an install of "postgresql"> with debian. Would it be worth putting > a note in SF to this effect? Okay, I'll add some notes about installing required packages to the README. Would you still file a bug against the debian database package? since I think them not building the postgres.oct binary is wrong (the build machine didn't have libpq-devinstalled, or similar), and it is the method many/most users will use. Thanks! Xavier *************************************** I rated this as 'important' because most people wanting to install octave I image would want to talk to a database, and this would be their normal method ofinstallation. This package might be needed for octave3.0-headers instead rather than octave3.0, but I'll leave that up to someone else to decide. -- System Information:Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing')Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebraii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebraii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared librariesii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-5 Multi-protocol file transfer libraii libfftw3-3 3.1.2-3.1 library for computing Fast Fourierii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support libraryii libgfortran3 4.3.1-2 Runtime library for GNU Fortran apii libglpk0 4.29-2 linear programming kit with integeii libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5)ii liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-1 library of linear algebra routinesii libncurses5 5.6+20080804-1 shared libraries for terminal handii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressiii libqhull5 2003.1-9 calculate convex hulls and relatedii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history librariesii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3ii libsuitesparse-3.1.0 3.1.0-3 collection of libraries for computii texinfo 4.11.dfsg.1-4 Documentation system for on-line iii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:pn gnuplot <none> (no description available)ii libatlas3gf-base 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:pn octave3.0-doc <none> (no description available)pn octave3.0-emacsen <none> (no description available)pn octave3.0-headers <none> (no description available)pn octave3.0-htmldoc <none> (no description available)pn octave3.0-info <none> (no description available) _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
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--- Begin Message ---* Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-30 18:19]: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Gerard ODonnell wrote: > > [snip] > > I rated this as 'important' because most people wanting to install > > octave I image would want to talk to a database, and this would be > > their normal method ofinstallation. > > > This package might be needed for octave3.0-headers instead rather than > > octave3.0, but I'll leave that up to someone else to decide. > > So, to be clear: there's not a single line of code in Octave that > requires Postgresql, MySQL, Sqlite or whatever database; yet you guys > expect us to add a dependency on these packages because one of the 50 > packages in octave-forge requires the headers? > > Not in a thousand years, sorry. Octave already has a truckload of > (needed!) depedencies. > > If you want to create bindings to a database, installing the databases > header files is what you must do. > [snip] The arguments presented by Thomas are enough. This is a non-bug. Closing this report hereby. -- Rafael
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