ons, 16 06 2010 kl. 19:15 -0400, skrev Alex Lancaster: > I'm the maintainer for the Fedora package of octave-forge
Thanks for doing that :-) > I have definitely tracked this down to "ann" being the issue, > removing the package, makes the crashes go away. Is this a > known issue with "ann"? Apparently it hasn't been updated in > SVN for a while, the last update (r6006) was to allow it to > compile with Octave 3.2 and newer SWIG, but nothing since: > > http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave?view=revision&revision=6006 > > Hopefully the "ann" maintainer can look into it, and let > us know what needs to be done, or if not, let us know whether > "ann" is still being actively maintained. Otherwise we may > just have to remove it from the Fedora package. 'ann' is a SWIG generated package, right? Sadly, these packages never worked properly and never saw much maintenance. Unless somebody steps up and actually fixes the SWIG stuff for Octave, I would recommend just dropping the SWIG packages from Fedora. An alternative would be to ensure that SWIG generated packages are never loaded by default and produce a warning when they are loaded? Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
