[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49503] mxe-octave: packages configure script calling octave itself have issues

[John Donoghue]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #49503 (project octave):

There was a discussion on the maintainers list (I think) where it was decided
it was resonalable to expect whoever was packaging the binary packages would
have a native octave installed.

Having said that, currently mxe doesn't check that a native veersion is
installed, and I see from doing a build myself, that mxe silently fails on the
configure script if you don't have octave and packages just the install the
inst files

So perhaps a check for octave and at the very least a warning given during the
mxe build would be good.

Theres at least one other package in mxe that would check the octave version,
however I think I patched it in mxe to just not install the file make would
conditionally not install.


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