Re: [Fink-devel] octave question

[David R. Morrison]

On Dec 15, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote:

On Dec 15, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Koen van der Drift wrote:
Hi,
The current version of octave installs a bunch of files in 
directories that are called powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0 This makes it 
OS X version dependent, and thus .deb files for octave are different 
for whatever OS X version the user had installed (I happened to have 
10.3.4 installed when I build octave). Is it possible to fix this, 
maybe by passing --build=powerpc-apple-darwin to the configure 
params?
(I've mailed the maintainer - Jeff Whitaker - twice but got no 
response. Anyone know if he is still around?)
As far as I can see from cvs logs, he is still very much around and 
takes care of a couple of rather difficult packages. Maybe he 
concentrates on really important problems?
I have CC'd him, so he can decide if this is important.
Does this version-dependent directory pose any technical problem, as 
opposed to philosophical or political? I haven't experienced any 
problem with it.
The reason I'm asking is that am the maintainer of plplot and it 
installs its octave related files in the octave directories named 
powerpc-apple-darwin7.X.X based on the OS X version present when 
octave was built. So, it is my understanding that a .deb file should 
always be the same, no matter which Mac it was built on. This is 
clearly not the case in this situation, which is why I asked.
Koen,
You are absolutely right: we want fink packages to build the same for 
everyone (or at least, everyone using 10.3.x), so a directory whose 
name contains more versioning than that is bad. Your suggestion about 
passing --build is a good one.

Jeff, can you look into this?
 -- Dave

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