Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Whitaker wrote: | Koen: Sorry I missed your emails - I'll have a look at it. Martin is | right though, it doesn't pose any technical problems, just philosophical | ones (i.e. the octave package, like many others, doesn't strictly | conform to policy). g77, for example, also installs darwin version | numbered directories. Your --build=powerpc-apple-darwin is a good | suggestion though, and may be an easy fix. Hi Jeff, If you do change it, please use --build=%m-apple-darwin so that it will work properly for the 2 or 3 x86 darwin users. Peter - -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQcA8z7iDAg3OZTLPAQIAPQP+IlcuWnDvzexjSVw2L8aVd5FdnXXoBQg/ 9+dmzxCZartWZVr1OZcpj5ujgIRjGHRkMLycHKY5WioMbqDSp2KqSxbgKd80Ua7B C5jqLB/NjgJpHLsHsqiPmAJhBmmPLjjQLoyd8abNWuZopzvhgvgEaQ9/fsvgf0KJ VWbFn9woNXY= =spqu -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
snip Koen: Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on the octave package with Xcode 1.5. Even with the Nov gcc update, it still won't build - it dies building libcruft with errors like this: ld: misc/quit.o malformed object (stray relocation PAIR entry (1) in section (__TEXT,__eh_frame)) Can you build octave with Xcode 1.5 and the Nov update? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX: (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 BroadwayWeb: www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 I was able to build it today with XCode1.5 and the November update. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
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. Koen: Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on the octave package with Xcode 1.5. Even with the Nov gcc update, it still won't build - it dies building libcruft with errors like this: ld: misc/quit.o malformed object (stray relocation PAIR entry (1) in section (__TEXT,__eh_frame)) Can you build octave with Xcode 1.5 and the Nov update? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX: (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 BroadwayWeb: www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
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 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
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? Does this version-dependent directory pose any technical problem, as opposed to philosophical or political? I haven't experienced any problem with it. -- Martin --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
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. Koen: Sorry I missed your emails - I'll have a look at it. Martin is right though, it doesn't pose any technical problems, just philosophical ones (i.e. the octave package, like many others, doesn't strictly conform to policy). g77, for example, also installs darwin version numbered directories. Your --build=powerpc-apple-darwin is a good suggestion though, and may be an easy fix. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1FAX : (303)497-6449 325 BroadwayWeb : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
On Dec 15, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: Koen: Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on the octave package with Xcode 1.5. Even with the Nov gcc update, it still won't build - it dies building libcruft with errors like this: ld: misc/quit.o malformed object (stray relocation PAIR entry (1) in section (__TEXT,__eh_frame)) Can you build octave with Xcode 1.5 and the Nov update? At least I see that I installed the nov update on nov 19 , and that a couple of hours later I had succesfully rebuild octave - just to check JF --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] octave question
On Dec 15, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: Koen: Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on the octave package with Xcode 1.5. Even with the Nov gcc update, it still won't build - it dies building libcruft with errors like this: ld: misc/quit.o malformed object (stray relocation PAIR entry (1) in section (__TEXT,__eh_frame)) Can you build octave with Xcode 1.5 and the Nov update? Jeff, No problems with rebuilding (OS X 10.3.6). The /sw/lib/octave/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0 directory with the plplot file is still there, as well as a new /sw/lib/octave/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 directory. - Koen. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
