Jonathan Stickel wrote: [] > Although it is difficult to tell from Alex's terse response, I think he > means that a modification to the Octave package in Fink will be needed, > i.e. a change to the octave.info file. I am still new to Fink and don't > understand the details myself, but it looks like some packages have > "variants": they are compiled against different libraries and are > therefor different. Like you, I would argue that since fftw, qhull, > hdf5 are not treated as variants, then suitesparse should not be treated > as a variant either.
The minimal modification needed would be to have an entry for suitesparse (or whatever the name of the new package is) in the BuildDepends and/or Depends lines of the octave.info file. Read the section on the Depends field in <http://www.finkproject.org/doc/packaging/reference.php?phpLang=en#fields> -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
