[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47183] Problems with instructions on http://wiki.octave.org/MXE - and suggested improvements

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #47183 (project octave):

For what you want to do, I would probably just build my own copy of the
GraphicsMagick library and then build Octave using the usual untar, bootstrap,
configure, make steps.  Running it might require setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
pick up the correct GraphicsMagick library, but it seems to me that would be
better than building all dependencies, including a new GCC toolchain all from
scratch.

The reason I modified mxe-octave to allow native builds on unixy systems was
so that I could build Octave for systems that have obsolete versions of GCC
and other dependencies.  But if your system has a reasonable set of tools,
building all of these things instead of using the packages provided by the
system is probably not the best thing to do.  I added some info to the wiki
page.  I didn't write the original version of that page, but I'm sorry if it
was misleading.

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