[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47617] instrument-control package needs better Makefile

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #22, bug #47617 (project octave):

> Current philosophy is that all modules are built, but return a "not
supported" error message. Don't know if it's better just to skip building if
not supported. 

Please don't skip build of those functions. It is better to have an error that
explicitly says that the package was built without support for it. It makes it
obvious for the user where the issue was otherwise, the user may think they
are using an old version of the package, or that the function is in another
package. It also makes that function help text available which can be useful
for the user but it also allows any maintainer to build the package
documentation for release without requiring support for all of them on his
system.

Note that this is also how Octave core works if you are missing graphicsmagick
(disables image IO functions), qhull (disables voronoi), or curl (disables
urlwrite and urlread) for example.

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