Re: on the glpk patch for octave

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* M. White <address@hidden> [2007-02-28 15:38]:

> I've been reading the discussions of the glpk patch for octave in  
> trying to get the darwinports/macports version of octave working on  
> my machine, and I don't think the current patch in the octave CVS  
> directory will work for glpk 4.14, as it designates the macro  
> definition GLPK_PRE_4_15 rather than GLPK_PRE_4_14.  So, if one has  
> glpk 4.14, it looks as if the patch will treat it the same as the  
> earlier versions (unless the macro is mis-named), and it will not  
> work (because I had to look at __glpk__.cc in the CVS directory to  
> figure out how to hack my copy so that I could get macports to build  
> octave 2.9.9 with glpk 4.14 support).  The fix should be simple  
> enough to change the macro to be pre 4.14 and not 4.15.  Anyway,  
> since keeping some level of backwards compatibility seems like it is  
> important to the developers, I'd thought  I'd comment about the  
> potential problem I see in the patch in the CVS directory.

I did not test test the patch with 4.14, but I trust it should work with
4.14.  I chose the preprocessor macro name as GLPK_PRE_4_15 for
pragmatic reasons.  If it is well tested that the patch work with 4.14, I
have nothing against changing the macro name to GLPK_PRE_4_14.

-- 
Rafael