On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:18 AM, James K. Lowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know, Mr. Batemean. I understand, and I agree. No offence meant. I > was only suggesting that an MD5 digest might be less effort to produce > than answering list messages about virus scanner errors. > > I don't know if I'm ideally placed or not, but I expect before long I'll > be wrangling with building Octave for Windows from source. I'd like to > get a version built with symbols, so I can trace calls to my extension > with a debugger. > > I tried on NetBSD and gave up. (I'm not alone, cf. > http://cvsweb.netbsd.se/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/math/octave/patches/) > :-( > > BTW, is there interest here in making Octave more portable, in particular > by using libtool? I might be able to help there.
I don't think libtool will provide any improvement under non-UNIX-like platforms/compilers. If you really want portability, look at build solutions like SCons or CMake, but not libtool. Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
